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U.S. soldier dies in vehicle rollover accident in Afghanistan
The Department of Defense has announced that a soldier was killed over the weekend in a vehicle rollover accident in Afghanistan.
Washington Redskins' Ron Rivera working with team owner on new nickname
Washington Redskins head coach Ron Rivera said he has been working with owner Dan Snyder on a new team name over the past few weeks.
Photocatalysis in flow functionalizes light hydrocarbons
Decatungstate plucks hydrogen atoms from C–H bonds in methane, ethane, propane, and isobutane
Solar production rose amid pandemic shutdowns
Better air quality in Delhi meant less haze-and a boost for solar installations
AI’s carbon footprint problem
For all the advances enabled by artificial intelligence, from speech recognition to self-driving cars, AI systems consume a lot of power and can generate high volumes of climate-changing carbon emissions....
Seat back safety standards in U.S. cars under intense scrutiny
About one child dies every week in the U.S. due to unsafe car seat backs, the safety standards for which have not been updated since the 1960s. Now, lawmakers are...
Letter from Iran triggers mediation process on nuclear deal
The European Union's top diplomat said a recent letter from Iran's foreign minister triggers a dispute mechanism in the international accord governing Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Phil Lord, Chris Miller working on 'Clone High' reboot
Filmmakers Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence are developing and producing a reboot of their early 2000s adult cartoon "Clone High."
Krysten Ritter, Aaron Paul to perform James Patterson book for Audible
Krysten Ritter, Aaron Paul and Nathalie Emmanuel have signed on to perform "The Coldest Case: A Black Book" for Audible.
Scientists say WHO ignores the risk that coronavirus floats in air as aerosol
More than 200 researchers worldwide sign an open letter saying current guidance ignores evidence that the coronavirus readily spreads on microscopic particles known as aerosols that can hang in the...
Scientists say WHO ignores the risk that coronavirus floats in air as aerosol
More than 200 researchers worldwide sign an open letter saying current guidance ignores evidence that the coronavirus readily spreads on microscopic particles known as aerosols that can hang in the...
Tear gas and pepper spray: What protesters need to know
Experts discuss the use and chemistry of the riot-control agents and how to neutralize their effects
Video: Microgripper captures single cells for tissue biopsy
The remotely guided device offers a simple way to manipulate cells
New method measures temperature within 3D objects
Engineers have made it possible to remotely determine the temperature beneath the surface of certain materials using a new technique they call depth thermography. The method may be useful in...
New light-based method for faster and 'green' production of building blocks for medicines
Researchers have developed a new method to convert gaseous, low-weight hydrocarbons into more complex molecules by illuminating the hydrocarbons with light in the presence of a suitable catalyst.
Towards lasers powerful enough to investigate a new kind of physics
Researchers have demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. This approach, based on the compression of light pulses, would make it possible to reach a threshold intensity...
Researchers propose novel method for plasmonic structural color generation
A research group led by Prof. Cao Hongtao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed a novel direct...
Histone H3-H4 tetramer found to be a copper reductase enzyme
A team of researchers at the University of California has found that the histone H3-H4 tetramer is a copper reductase enzyme. In their paper published in the journal Science, the...
Toward super-fast motion of vortices in superconductors
An international team of scientists from Austria, Germany, and Ukraine has found a new superconducting system in which magnetic flux quanta can move at velocities of 10 to 15 km/s....
Wiring a new path to scalable quantum computing
Last year, Google produced a 53-qubit quantum computer that could perform a specific calculation significantly faster than the world's fastest supercomputer. Like most of today's largest quantum computers, this system...
New breakthrough in 'spintronics' could boost high speed data technology
Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in the important, emerging field of spintronics—which could lead to a new high speed energy efficient data technology.
How to get rid of the coffee-stain effect
The coffee-stain effect is a well-known effect in physics and daily life in which a dark-colored edge remains when a fluid containing particles evaporates. This is caused by an "avalanche"...
Harvesting hydrogen from nanogardens
Easily produced, nature-like nanostructures of cobalt phosphide are highly effective catalysts for the electrolysis of water, according to research performed by chemist Ning Yan and his team at the University...
The best modern desk lamps for your home office
Illuminate your workspace. (Shuvro Mojumder via Unsplash/)It’s hard to overstate the impact a lamp can have on a room. In a spot where your eyes once strained to see, suddenly they are...
Toward lasers powerful enough to investigate a new kind of physics
In a paper that made the cover of the journal Applied Physics Letters, an international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. This...
Enhancing the performance of solar cells with 'graphene armor'
A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has come up with a novel electrode that could greatly improve the stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the most promising candidate for...
Researchers solve a 60-year-old puzzle about a superhard material
Skoltech researchers, together with their industrial colleagues and academic partners, have cracked a 1960s puzzle about the crystal structure of a superhard tungsten boride that can be extremely useful in...
Taking the measure of noise pollution during COVID lockdown
Samuel Challeat was riding his bike in the city of Toulouse in the hours before France's strict COVID-19 lockdown took hold when the thought came to him.