Electrochemists at RIKEN have found a way to selectively convert nitrites into one of four other nitrogen-containing compounds using the same catalyst. This could help to replace fossil-fuel-intensive industrial processes ...
It's almost bushfire season. Yes, even though floods are still racing through parts of eastern Australia. Fire conditions are above average including in inland New South Wales and Queensland.
It was a simple idea—maybe even too simple to work.
To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration from your own youth?
Mechanical metamaterials are sophisticated artificial structures with mechanical properties that are driven by their structure, rather than their composition. While these structures have proved to be very promising for the ...
Thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age, rivers flowed from giant glaciers in the Sierra Nevada down to the Central Valley, carving into rock and gouging channels at a time when the sea level was about 400 feet lower. ...
The world population has just hit a new record: 8 billion. As is often the case, there are heated debates about the planet's so-called "carrying capacity"—the total number of people who can live on Earth sustainably. Experts ...
NASA's Artemis I launch is a major step forward in humans going deeper and spending longer in space than ever before.
In operations management, there's a well-known model called the newsvendor problem. Based on the classic scenario of a paper carrier deciding how many papers to try to sell each day, the newsvendor problem illustrates the ...
Globally, the coastal lagoons of Lagos (Nigeria), Sakumo (Ghana) and Bizerte (Tunisia)—close to large urban centers and without waste and sewage treatment systems—are among the water ecosystems most affected by microplastic ...
