Materials that conduct electricity well, like metals, also tend to conduct heat. For instance, a metal spoon left in a hot cup of tea will get hot, while the ceramic mug remains cool. This is because good electrical conductors are usually good hea...
Dec 5, 2024
The life of billions of people inhabiting Earth is owed to a temporary organ that supported and nourished them in a mother's womb. The placenta, or afterbirth, is considered sacred by some cultures, its pivotal role in pregnancy recognized as...
Dec 5, 2024
The portrait of Mookpododo – an ink on-silk painting of grapes featured on the genuine Korean ₩50,000 bill – radiates a bright fluorescent green, an effect achieved through security ink that is visible under ultraviolet (UV) light. This feature re...
Dec 5, 2024
Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hy...
Dec 5, 2024
In everyday life, materials that conduct electricity well, like metals, also tend to conduct heat. For instance, a metal spoon left in a hot cup of tea will get hot, while the ceramic mug remains cool. This is because good electrical conductors ar...
Dec 5, 2024
SMU Lyle mechanical engineering graduate student Kamruzzaman Joty has introduced a groundbreaking new technique in nanotechnology for detecting and analyzing biomolecules, potentially paving the way for new methods of early disease detection.
Dec 5, 2024
Transforming sunlight into chemical energy is one of nature's most elegant tricks. Scientists studying artificial versions of this process have long struggled to track the fleeting movements of electrons that occur when light strikes a cataly...
Dec 5, 2024
Researchers from the University of California, Harvard University, University of Manchester, UC Santa Cruz and the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan have conducted an experiment that confirms a 40 year old theory that elec...
Dec 5, 2024
Plant diseases destroy up to 40% of global food crops, threatening food security and agricultural sustainability. While plants naturally resist many diseases, their defenses often fail against aggressive pathogens. Current solutions rely heavily o...
Dec 4, 2024
The surfaces that cells come into contact with can influence how the cells grow, function, and communicate — shaping metabolism and even cellular health. Now, engineering researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a platf...
Dec 4, 2024
