Scientific discoveries and research
On a sweltering August afternoon or in the teeth of a winter storm, New York City subway riders make a quiet calculation: Is the trip worth it? A new...
Catalysis—the reduction of activation energy in a chemical reaction by a catalyst—plays a key role in the chemical industry, as well as in the develop...
Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet. Despite the devastation, so...
The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator facility FAIR have made an important contribution to the success o...
For some time, researchers have assumed that solid materials could gain more useful properties by making their microscopic components more active. Now...
At some highly selective colleges and universities, cohorts of mostly white, wealthy applicants have three to eight times greater odds of admission th...
Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections linked to antibiotic resi...
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity lo...
When humans are moving as a crowd, their movements tend to be highly coordinated, similarly to the collective motions of bird flocks or other groups o...
A new analysis has revealed a global decline in fish growth over the last century, with scientists warning that overfishing and environmental change a...
An international research team led by DTU has developed a new magnetic material that features a stable internal magnetic structure, almost no external...
As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on tiny algae cells living wi...
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