Science
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Catchment planning boosts impact of small water retention measures
Flooding, drought, and the loss of soil and nutrients are well-known challenges in agricultural catchments. Climate change is making these problems more pronoun...
Boys ditch books when schools close—girls keep reading: Study
When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new...
Iron-substituted MoOₓ catalyst boosts oxygen evolution for alkaline water electrolysis
A Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) research team, led by Dr. Dahee Park at the Hydrogen Energy Materials Research Center, has successfully developed...
Chandra resolves why black holes hit the brakes on growth
Astronomers have an answer for a long-running mystery in astrophysics: why is the growth of supermassive black holes so much lower today than in the past? A stu...
Fish gill-inspired panels reveal path to efficient thermal mixing
A fascination with fish gills has led researchers at Cornell to develop a bio-inspired approach to mixing heat and molecules in fluids—findings that could infor...
Magnetic microbots steer quantum sensors inside living cells
Cells are squishy and soft. Tiny nanometer-sized particles such as quantum sensors cannot move freely inside them due to viscous drag, which makes sensing chall...
AI avatars promise UK growth if laws can put people first
AI avatars are helping UK businesses save time and money, but without clear rules, workers are at risk and growth opportunities are being missed. A report publi...
Continued monitoring of sunken Soviet submarine shows ongoing radioactive leakage, but little impact
In 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine Komsomolets sank to the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, along with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear warhead...
Study finds overconfident CEOs are 10-15% less likely to delegate deal work
A new study finds overconfident CEOs are less likely to delegate responsibilities to underlings, particularly in settings that involve complex transactions—such...
What's that critter? New tech guidelines can help ensure we get the right answer
Have you ever been in the woods and wondered what bug you're hearing or which bird is singing? These days, new technologies are helping both scientists and the...
Trapped subsurface heat may have triggered Antarctica's sudden sea ice loss
In 2016, Antarctic sea ice, which had previously shown record expansion, shifted rapidly toward unusually low levels. This abrupt shift left scientists scratchi...
A much more sensitive fentanyl detection strip, thanks to physics
Following the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, lateral flow assays (LFAs)—the category of test strips in which the presence or lack of a pink line indicates...