Underwater surfaces can get grimy as they accumulate dirt, algae and bacteria, a process scientists call "fouling." But furry mammals like beavers and otters that spend most of their lives wet manage to avoid getting their ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2024
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new chemical process which upcycles polyesters, including PET in plastic bottles, to morpholine amide, a versatile and valuable building block for synthesizing ...
Polymers
Oct 9, 2023
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China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the moon in the 2020s.
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2023
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The ever-increasing generation of plastic solid waste has resulted in global plastic pollution both on land and in the oceans. Projections show that plastic waste will double in the next 20 years, causing further environmental ...
Polymers
Mar 23, 2023
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Polyethylene has a number of advantageous properties, but biodegradability is not one of them. A team of researchers has now developed a plastic which has similar thermoplastic properties to polyethylene but is also biodegradable. ...
Materials Science
Jan 5, 2023
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Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contain some of Earth's coldest and driest deserts. The environment there is so extreme that the Dry Valleys have been used as Mars analogs to test prototype equipment for future Mars exploration.
Space Exploration
Dec 8, 2022
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New modeling shows how synonymous mutations—those that change the DNA sequence of a gene but not the sequence of the encoded protein—can still impact protein production and function. A team of researchers led by Penn ...
Biochemistry
Dec 5, 2022
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Stochastic thermodynamics is an emerging area of physics aimed at better understanding and interpreting thermodynamic concepts away from equilibrium. Over the past few years, findings in these fields have revolutionized the ...
A collaboration between Harvard University with scientists at QuEra Computing, MIT, University of Innsbruck and other institutions has demonstrated a breakthrough application of neutral-atom quantum processors to solve problems ...
Quantum Physics
May 5, 2022
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A study led by Dr. Guancong Ma (Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China) and Dr. Kun Ding (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China) provides a new perspective ...
Quantum Physics
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