Superconductivity Aug 7, 2024

Team fabricates world's highest-performance superconducting wire segment

Our future energy may depend on high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wires. This technology's ability to carry electricity without resistance at temperatures higher than those required by traditional superconductors could ...

Materials Science 18 hours ago

Chemical production gets a cleaner boost from a new electrochemical method

A new electrochemical method can make chemical production cleaner and more energy-efficient.

Materials Science Aug 1, 2024

Chemical and transportation industries could get a boost with new catalyst coating

Coupling electrochemical conversion of the greenhouse gas CO2 with renewable electricity sources—such as solar and wind—promises green production of high-demand chemicals and transportation fuels. Carbon dioxide coupling ...

Astronomy Aug 5, 2024

LAMOST J2354 binary hosts an unseen massive white dwarf, study suggests

Astronomers from the Ohio State University (OSU) and University of Hawai'i have performed spectroscopic observations of a recently-discovered binary system known as LAMOST J2354, which contains a dark companion star. Results ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 2, 2024

Machine learning discovers 'hidden-gem' materials for heat-free gas separation

Chemical separation, including gas separation, is a common process that is required for manufacturing and research. It accounts for a whopping 15% of U.S. energy consumption and produces millions of tons of carbon emissions.

Molecular & Computational biology Aug 1, 2024

When it comes to DNA replication, humans and baker's yeast are more alike than different, scientists discover

Humans and baker's yeast have more in common than meets the eye, including an important mechanism that helps ensure DNA is copied correctly, reports a pair of studies published in the journals Science and Proceedings of the ...

Earth Sciences Aug 5, 2024

Detecting nitrogen dioxide from power plants with Sentinel-2

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide is a harmful pollutant with significant impacts on air quality, climate and the biosphere. Although satellites have mapped nitrogen dioxide concentrations since the 1990s, their resolution was ...

Social Sciences 18 hours ago

TikToks—even neutral ones—harm women's body image, but diet videos had the worst effect, study finds

Women who spend a lot of time on TikTok—especially those seeing a lot of pro-anorexia content—feel worse about their appearance, a new study shows. The results suggest that high TikTok exposure could harm mental health, ...

Nanophysics Aug 2, 2024

First 3D visualization of an aluminum nanocomposite for the auto industry

Manufacturing cars with strong, lightweight aluminum alloys rather than steel could improve fuel efficiency and extend electric vehicle range, but the material's instability at high temperatures has held the alloys back from ...

Ecology Aug 5, 2024

Carbohydrate produced by bacteria triggers marine biofouling

Most bottom-dwelling marine invertebrate animals, such as sponges, corals, worms and oysters, produce tiny larvae that swim in the ocean prior to attaching to the seafloor and transforming into juveniles. A previous study ...

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