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Agriculture Oct 30, 2026

Crop diversification protects fields from extreme weather and boosts productivity

Varying crop rotations and keeping the soil constantly covered with vegetation help protect crops against droughts and floods, in addition to increasing productivity. This technique was tested in Rio Grande do Sul state, ...

Archaeology Oct 29, 2026

How ancient insect-eating diets could inspire more sustainable food systems

New research from Durham University highlights how insects have been part of human diets for thousands of years despite seeming unusual to many people.

General Physics Oct 29, 2026

Electrical signals reveal hidden magnetic information in altermagnets for first time

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to obtain from an altermagnet a spin current that can transport magnetic information. This result is supported by the theoretical model ...

Nanomaterials Oct 29, 2026

AI helps uncover overlooked 2D materials and create 11 new ones

With the help of artificial intelligence, researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have found previously overlooked occurrences of the 2D materials MXenes in older databases. The findings have inspired the researchers ...

Materials Science Oct 29, 2026

Using hydrogen to spark ammonia engines into life

"Ammonia was first used as a fuel during World War II, when gasoline was hard to get hold of," explains David Emberson, associate professor at NTNU's Department of Marine Technology.

Political science Oct 29, 2026

How to keep electricity costs down amid uncertain federal policy

Keeping the lights on nationwide is a feat of engineering that depends on millions of miles of power lines and thousands of power-generation plants.

Condensed Matter Oct 28, 2026

Ultrathin metal layer boosts spin-related signals, opening a door to ultralow-power electronics

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that an ultrathin layer of iridium manganese (IrMn) can improve two spin-related signals in a structure made of a magnetic insulator and a platinum film. By examining how spin currents ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 28, 2026

Atomic magnetism reveals why iron, but not chromium, can produce ammonia using sunlight

Two nearly identical materials have completely different chemical behavior. Research teams at the University of Vienna and TU Wien studied catalysts that use the energy of sunlight to produce ammonia. Surprisingly, when the ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 28, 2026

The hydrogen atom: The raw material of the universe barely exists on Earth—now we've made it in a flask

What do you see when you look up at the night sky? While everyone may have a different answer, the truth is that almost everything out there is hydrogen. The first element in the periodic table is by far the most abundant ...

Ecology Oct 28, 2026

Launch of global seed platform to tackle native seed bottleneck holding back nature restoration

On Oct. 13, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) launched the Seed Portal for Online Data (SeedPOD), a new open-access platform designed to tackle bottlenecks affecting global ecological restoration, by making native ...

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