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Growing energy efficiency divide making renters sweat
Households are motivated to reduce their energy consumption and help mitigate climate change, but unaffordable technologies and rental restrictions are preventi...
Reeling in labor abuse: Building tools to improve accountability in the fishing industry
In 2020, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation approached Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) to help identify priorities for action on so...
Engineering quantum Hall stripes in 2D materials inside electromagnetic cavities
Quantum materials, materials with properties that are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, have proved to be highly promising for the development of ultra...
Brains update sensory predictions through single timing hub, electric fish study finds
In the split second after you hear a noise, your brain is already making a potentially life-or-death deduction: Did I do that, or did something else? Our nervou...
One photon, two reactions—new catalyst converts CO₂ and biowaste simultaneously
Researchers have developed a solar-driven catalyst material that harnesses the energy of a single photon to reduce carbon dioxide and oxidize organic waste at t...
Combining the general and the specific for urban science and policy
As the world's population becomes more and more urban, cities are emerging as key components of the Anthropocene—both as major contributors to climate change an...
SpaceX IPO set for liftoff in record market debut
Elon Musk's SpaceX was set to begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange Friday, with the biggest initial public offering in history expected to make the polarizing e...
Science fiction? Musk's lofty SpaceX goals unrealistic, skeptics say
Elon Musk's SpaceX has made awe-inspiring achievements since its founding more than two decades ago and has big ideas—colonies on Mars, orbital AI data centers,...
Building robust materials from start may ease critical mineral risks, perspective argues
Researchers at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) outline in a perspective paper how high-performance materials for batteries, hydro...
Extending cryo-electron microscopy beyond water
From paints and inks to catalysts and drug-delivery materials, many advanced technologies rely on substances dispersed in organic solvents. Yet directly observi...
Persistence, focus on tech makes U.S. 'serial acquirers' different
In the U.S., unlike elsewhere in the world, the vast majority of mergers and acquisitions are conducted by "serial acquirers"—large, publicly traded firms that...
Climate change to alter sea-land breeze and increase ozone pollution in Barcelona
Climate change will profoundly alter the dynamics of sea and land breezes in the Barcelona metropolitan area, trapping larger amounts of air pollutants over coa...