Science
Scientific discoveries and research
How directing water flows in the landscape could support groundwater and surface water streams
Researchers at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research have investigated how water from streams can be stored in the aquifer during wet periods....
TRACERS spacecraft maps solar energy's route into Earth using cusp electrons
Physicists led by the University of Iowa have documented in the finest detail to date how energy from the sun interacts with Earth's magnetic field, which could...
Cellulose films match plastic performance while enabling recycling or biodegradation
A new cellulose-based material platform developed in Finland responds to tightening regulatory requirements and industry pressure to both replace and reduce pla...
When motion prevents order in active matter systems
Pack enough string-like objects together, and they will begin to align with one another. But replace the strings with worms or bacteria living in your gut, and...
Q&A: Tracing the origins of supermassive black holes
Sarah Pappert is a Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at the TUM School of Natural Sciences and conducts research at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial...
CDC sleuthing helps decipher drug-resistant infection rise
Previous research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that a dangerous variety of bacteria that cause drug-resistant infections, cal...
New atlas reveals more about how the body's 'master gland' really works
A new study has created a detailed map of the pituitary gland, often called the body's "master gland" because it controls important functions such as growth, st...
Fusion reactors could be monitored for covert plutonium production
In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically limitless energy. But before this can ha...
Supercomputer illuminates subatomic particle that helps hold matter together
A team of researchers has leveraged a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to reveal the internal structure of a p...
As wildfires increase in the West, so does suppression spending
Hotter, drier conditions in the western United States have led to a rise in wildfire activity that has damaged or destroyed infrastructure, natural ecosystems a...
Heat-surviving cyanobacteria switch to respiration when photosynthesis falters, 48-hour test reveals
A new study challenges a long-standing assumption about how cyanobacteria survive environmental stress. The study, led by researchers at the Israel Oceanographi...
Water molecule unlocks faster interfacial polymerization by lowering energy barrier
Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have achieved two major breakthroughs in interfacial polymerization, a key technique f...