An international team of scientists, including a professor of chemistry from the University of Bristol, has worked out a way to improve energy storage devices called supercapacitors, by designing a new class of detergents ...
Materials Science
Aug 12, 2019
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New research, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, has found that Antarctic icebergs can weaken and delay the effect of Global Warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2019
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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the thinnest optical device in the world—a waveguide that is three layers of atoms thin.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 12, 2019
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Democracy, environmental protection, peace—the great issues of our time are collective goods that can only happen if many people make a voluntary contribution. However, the theory of collective action, which has been held ...
Economics & Business
Aug 12, 2019
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Chickadees can smell! That is the news from a study out of Lehigh University, the first to document naturally hybridizing songbirds' preference for the scent of their own species.
Evolution
Aug 12, 2019
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When acting as one part of a group charged with deciding how to punish someone—a jury, for example—individuals are swayed by their peers to punish more often than they would if deciding alone, a new study found.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2019
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One quarter of the world's tropical land could disappear by the end of the century unless meat and dairy consumption falls, researchers have warned.
Environment
Aug 12, 2019
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Engineers at the University of Illinois have found a way to redirect misfit light waves to reduce energy loss during optical data transmission. In a study, researchers exploited an interaction between light and sound waves ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 12, 2019
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Biologists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have led a study to sequence and analyse the genomes of four apple snail species in the family Ampullariidae. The researchers discovered that the apple snails have evolved ...
Ecology
Aug 12, 2019
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It's a comment we often hear in response to stories of child neglect: that parenting should require a licence.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2019
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