In a paper published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have examined traits of…
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NASA announces first SpaceX crewed flight for May 27
NASA announced on Friday that a SpaceX rocket will send two American astronauts to the International…
New discovery settles long-standing debate about photovoltaic materials
Scientists have theorized that organometallic halide perovskites— a class of light harvesting “wonder” materials for applications…
Impacts on asteroids produce regolith, erase small craters
Impact cratering both produces new regolith and causes seismic events that can degrade and erase small…
Nanoparticles: Acidic alert
Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have synthesized nanoparticles that can be induced by a change…
Researchers uncover the art of printing extremely hard steels flawlessly
For millennia, metallurgists have been meticulously tweaking the ingredients of steel to enhance its properties. As…
Dissecting the mechanism of protein unfolding by SDS
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have used molecular dynamics simulations to understand how…
Mutual funds with lower tax burdens have higher returns
After a wild couple of months of equity market volatility, many mutual fund investors are now…
Under pressure: New bioinspired material can 'shapeshift' to external forces
Inspired by how human bone and colorful coral reefs adjust mineral deposits in response to their…
Histones and their modifications are crucial for adaptation to cell stress
The genetic material—DNA—of plants and animals (within the latter humans) is stored inside the cell, and…