The first day of fall coincides with the autumn equinox, when day and night are nearly equal.
Scientists appear to have cracked the conundrum of how the highly toxic positively charged ammonium ion (NH4+) manages to be transported across a hydrophobic membrane into and out of cells.
University of Michigan issued the following announcement on September 21.New heat-harnessing “solar” cells that reflect 99% of the energy they can’t convert to electricity could help bring down the price of storing renewable energy as heat, as well as harvesting waste heat from exhaust pipes and chimneys.The energy storage application, known informally as a “sun in a box,” stores extra wind and solar power generation in a heat bank.“This approach to grid-scale energy storage is receiving widespread interest because it is estimated to be ten-fold cheaper than using batteries,” said Andrej Lenert, an assistant professor of chemical engineering.The “sun” itself in this approach is already low cost: a tank of molten silicon, for instance.
Researchers studying the body's ability to produce antibodies for defense against novel viruses have found that the 3D structure of chromatin controls which gene segments are available for recombination.
University of Cologne researcher Schoenemann focuses on ancient eyes
Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that hospitals could save more lives with a tool that offers earlier identification of patients most at risk of septic shock.
Researchers have come up with a way to make plasma without high-voltage electricity which could lead to new applications in pollution control, medicine and other areas, the U.S. National Science Foundation said.
Scientists at an “earthquake laboratory at CalTech increased the knowledge of the physics of friction that drive thrust-fault earthquakes, often the world’s largest quakes.
Richard Linares, an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) at MIT, is leading a multidisciplinary team of researchers to develop software to forecast space weather events.
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Chicago have determined in a study published in The Planetary Science Journal that some planets may shine bright like diamonds because they are, in fact, diamonds.
A new report from an international commission of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.K.’s Royal Society, cautions against permitting editing of the genome of embryos that will be used to produce a pregnancy.
An international team of scientists and researchers recently announced "spectral detections" of phosphine (PH3 – a phosphorus atom with three hydrogen atoms attached), a potential sign of life in the clouds high above the surface of Venus.
A new model offers a way to predict the condition of a battery’s internal systems in real-time with far more accuracy than existing tools. In electric cars, the technology could improve driving range estimates and prolong battery life.
Researchers develop a wider spectrum for dLight1 sensor, allowing multiplex imaging of neurotransmitters
New evidence uncovered in Laos may lend understanding to a possible connection between the end of the Green Sahara and a crippling megadrought that struck Southeast Asia between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago.
NASA’s Search and Rescue office is collaborating with a consortium of universities and other research organizations organized as SmartSat Cooperative Research Center (CRC) in order to improve on existing satellite-related technology that aids in search and rescue efforts around the world.
Researchers at Purdue University have discovered that a collection of electrons under extreme conditions can form quasiparticles called "anyons," which have unique "memory" properties and could advance quantum computing.
Inspired by blood vessels themselves, researchers in China have created a new "bio-inspired" liquid gating membrane-based catheter out of novel materials that mimic the function and purpose of the vascular system. The catheter could be a game changer in the use, safety and versatility of catheters and other derived applications.
The expansion of the Panama and Suez canals has increased the number of invasive, non-native fish species on the waterways, according to a new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Leibnitz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT).
Measuring blood antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2 may distinguish children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), which appears to be a serious but rare complication of viral infection, say researchers at Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.