Scientists discover crude oil decimates sea otter buoyancy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction. By 1938, only a tiny population of ~50 remained clinging…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction. By 1938, only a tiny population of ~50 remained clinging…
A new enzyme-inspired, small-molecule catalyst developed at the University of Illinois holds alcohols and alkenes in just the right proximity and position to join into ethers, key functional components of…
Credit: Science Bulletin (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2024.06.003 In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that the velocities of galaxies in the Coma Cluster were too high to be maintained solely…
Top: Raw matrix of 𝛾-ray energies and excitation energies following 𝛽 decay of 140Cs. The two diagonal projections for excitation energies 4.0–4.4 MeV are shown as insets together with their fits.…
Credit: Annenberg Public Policy Center Less than half of Americans can name most of the rights protected under the First Amendment and under two-thirds can name the three branches of…
(a) Schematic of the fabrication process. (b) Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of an as-printed diamond PhC. (c) Tile view SEM image of the annealed diamond PhC. (d-i) High-magnification SEM…
A handout image from Atlantic Wreck Salvage shows diver Joe Mazraani fanning away sand to reveal a ‘deadeye’ used as part of the sail rigging of Le Lyonnais. A US…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed…
Circos diagram of various elements on A. lancea chromosomes. The outermost circle (grey) represents 12 pseudomolecule chromosomes. The bar charts of circles 2–8 indicate gene density, distributions of TEs, LTR…
Credit: Accounts of Chemical Research (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00315 Synthetic chemistry provides an essential material basis for our clothing, food, housing, transportation, and medicine and is an important driving force for…