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Condensed Matter Jun 14, 2024

Exploring the origin of polaron formation in halide perovskites

Halide perovskites are a class of materials with an underlying structure resembling that of mineral perovskites, but with X sites occupied by halide ions, while their A and B sites are occupied by cations. These materials ...

Economics & Business Jun 13, 2024

Synthetic data holds the key to determining best statewide transit investments

Synthetically generated population data can reveal the equity impacts of distributing transportation resources and funding across diverse regions, according to new research from NYU's Tandon School of Engineering that uses ...

Ecology Jun 13, 2024

Giant deep-sea vent tubeworm symbionts use two carbon fixation pathways to grow at record speeds

In the deep-sea environment of the East Pacific Rise, where sunlight does not penetrate and the surroundings are known for their extreme temperatures, skull-crushing pressures, and toxic compounds, lives Riftia pachyptila, ...

Planetary Sciences Jun 13, 2024

Researchers discover mysterious mini-Neptunes

Researchers discovered mini-Neptunes around four red dwarfs using observations from a global network of ground-based telescopes and the TESS space telescope. These four mini-Neptunes are close to their parent stars, and the ...

Social Sciences Jun 13, 2024

Fans of long-running TV show experienced grief similar to losing a close friend when show ended, study finds

A psychologist at CQUniversity, in Australia, has found that some fans of the long-running TV show "Neighbours" have been experiencing grief similar to the experience of losing a close friend. In his study, published on the ...

Materials Science Jun 13, 2024

Researchers accidentally discover that mixing water with a peptide results in self-assembling and self-healing glass

A team of materials scientists from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, both in Israel, working with a colleague from California Institute of Technology, in the U.S., has found that mixing a certain ...

Biochemistry Jun 13, 2024

Scientists preserve DNA in amber-like polymer: Method could be used for long-term storage of genomes or digital data

In the movie "Jurassic Park," scientists extracted DNA that had been preserved in amber for millions of years, and used it to create a population of long-extinct dinosaurs.

Earth Sciences Jun 13, 2024

Uncovering the prolonged cooling events of the Holocene

Climate changes, but not always for the same reason. Today's rapid climate change is due entirely to man. The Holocene—the last 12,000 years—has been seen as having a stable climate, with a lack of chaos that allowed ...

Plants & Animals Jun 13, 2024

New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers

A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of ...

Environment Jun 13, 2024

Rural India runs dry as thirsty megacity Mumbai sucks water

Far from the gleaming high-rises of India's financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity's water are running dry—a crisis repeated across the country that experts say foreshadows terrifying ...

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