Invasive species risk a biodiversity disaster—but there is still time to stop it
Earth's habitats are facing a big increase in the number of alien species they have to deal with.
Earth's habitats are facing a big increase in the number of alien species they have to deal with.
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2023
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Scientists with the University of Chicago have demonstrated a way to create infrared light using colloidal quantum dots. The researchers said the method demonstrates great promise; the dots are already as efficient as existing ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 6, 2023
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Single-atom catalysts (SACs), representing the ultimate high atom utilization efficiency and specific activity, have arguably become the most active new frontier in heterogeneous catalysis. The technology of atom trapping ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 6, 2023
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Space exploration presents unique health challenges for astronauts due to lack of gravity, isolation, and radiation exposure. ESA's SciSpacE activities aim to comprehend these effects and their implications for human well-being ...
Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2023
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Scientists from Skoltech, the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, and the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR) in Beijing, China, are exploring the superconductivity of polyhydrides—compounds ...
Superconductivity
Aug 30, 2023
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The ocean will play a key role in efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists and IPCC. The use of "negative emissions technologies" to enhance carbon sequestration and storage in the ocean is increasingly ...
Environment
Aug 29, 2023
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Nothing in the world is perfect. This is also true in materials research. In computer simulations, one often represents a system in a highly idealized way; for example, one calculates the properties that an absolutely perfect ...
Nanophysics
Aug 29, 2023
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In the past two and a half years, two next-generation telescopes have been sent to space: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the ESA's Euclid Observatory. Before the decade is over, they will be joined by NASA's ...
Astrobiology
Aug 23, 2023
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Like the 60,000 miles of arteries and veins that course throughout the human body, ocean currents are the lifeblood of our planet—some flowing short distances, others circling the globe, but all playing a critical role ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2023
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"Trimming" the edge-states of a topological insulator yields a new class of material featuring unconventional "two-way" edge transport, as reported in a new theoretical study from Monash University, Australia, published in ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 22, 2023
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