Category: Science

Recyclable Flow Battery Retained 98% Capacity After 2,200 Lab Cycles

A new water-based flow-battery material retained 98.1% of capacity after 2,200 laboratory cycles, while researchers...

Michigan river study found 31 resistance genes at the same midstream site twice

Testing at six Michigan river sites found 31 antibiotic resistance genes at Inkster in both...

Discarded Plastic and Foundry Sand Become Cement-Free Bricks in New Experiment

Researchers combined mixed plastic waste and discarded foundry sand into experimental cement-free bricks, reporting 5.32...

Plant Hormones Could Help Crops Make Better Use of Nitrogen

New Nature Communications research identifies how brassinosteroid hormones influence BIN2 and KIN10 signalling to improve...

Astronomers find two families of planetary systems with very different histories

A new Nature Astronomy study identifies two distinct families of multi-planet systems, linking planetary mass...

A floating glass sphere became entangled with escaping light at room temperature

Scientists entangled the motion of a laser-levitated nanosphere with light escaping an optical cavity at...

18 Drimolen fossils strengthen South Africa’s 2-million-year Homo erectus record

Researchers classified 18 previously undescribed Drimolen fossils, including an adult skull fragment tentatively assigned to...

Hundreds of gut microbes travelled with humans and are now rare in industrialized populations

A Nature study traced ancient human migrations through gut bacteria, finding 1,231 shared species and...

Growing maize and soybeans together could use 20% less land in EU crop model

A peer-reviewed European crop model found that maize-soybean intercropping could deliver comparable combined production using...

Dead star may be feeding on a planet that formed after the star died

A white dwarf is accreting material rich in niobium and other unusual elements, pointing to...

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