Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
Leila Ais cuts a sample from a book cover to test for toxic dyes. Credit: Kristy Jones If you come across brightly colored, cloth-bound books from the Victorian era, you…
Leila Ais cuts a sample from a book cover to test for toxic dyes. Credit: Kristy Jones If you come across brightly colored, cloth-bound books from the Victorian era, you…
Octopus detail from a Roman mosaic in the ‘House of the Dancing Faun’, Pompeii (circa 1st century BC). Credit: Wikimedia If we want to research a subject, how do we…
BBC”We were just out looking to see what we could find, we didn’t think we’d find anything,” says Tegan, on the beach where the discovery was madeWhen 10-year-old Tegan went…
An aerial view of James Island and James Fort. The Jamestown colony was established in Tsenacomoco, the Algonquian name for the Powhatan chiefdom in the tidewater areas of the Chesapeake…
This graphic shows a cutaway model of Earth’s radiation belts with the two Van Allen Probes satellites flying through them. Credit: NASA illustration Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have…
The innovative research builds on Tour’s 2020 development of waste disposal and upcycling applications using flash Joule heating. Credit: James Tour’s Lab/Rice University. James Tour’s lab at Rice University has…
SpaceXTyche was launched on a SpaceX Falcon rocket from CaliforniaThe UK military has launched its first ever dedicated Earth-imaging satellite.Called Tyche, the washing machine-sized spacecraft will have sufficient resolution to…
An impact crater on Mars, with darker material exposed beneath the reddish dustNASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Six Martian meteorites have been traced back to the craters they were ejected from on…
by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS Schematics of hot-carrier processes in metal-semiconductor/dielectric heterostructures which interlinks photochemistry and nonlinear optics. Credit: Jacob Khurgin, Anton…
An experiment with beams of photons has confirmed quantum weirdness existsluchschenF/Shutterstock The world is as weird as we feared. A new experiment confirms yet again the existence of correlations between…