An eye-catching new study shows just how different the experience of walking home at night is for women versus men.
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2024
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Researchers in South Africa's Border Cave, a well-known archeological site perched on a cliff between eSwatini (Swaziland) and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, have found evidence that people have been using grass bedding to ...
Archaeology
Aug 14, 2020
5
14378
It has often been said that solar cells are like artificial versions of the photosynthetic apparatuses found in plants, such as leaves, since both harvest sunlight. But nature's leaves can do something that most solar cells ...
(Phys.org) -- A new kind of eyeglasses is now available from a British company that allows the wearer to adjust the prescription anytime, anywhere, via small thumb-dials on the sides. Called, Eyejusters, the glasses make ...
The beaches of one of the world's most remote islands have been found to be polluted with the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet, in a study published in the prestigious US scientific journal ...
Environment
May 15, 2017
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In optics, the era of glass lenses may be waning.
Nanophysics
Nov 14, 2018
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43
(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers with the University of Tokyo in Japan has expanded the science of sound wave levitation by adding more speakers and controlling the focal point of the waves that are created. In so doing, ...
(Phys.org) —Water may appear to be an abundant resource, but in some parts of the world clean water is hard to come by.
Engineering
Aug 15, 2014
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2
(Phys.org)—Fujifilm is working on a new recording method for optical discs. It has developed the new method through the use of two-photon absorption in order to generate heat, and the report in TechOn! notes that this two-photon ...
What if we could take a picture of an Earth-like planet around another star that was sharp enough to see continents, oceans, and clouds?
Astronomy
May 22, 2020
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