Earthworms are a welcome sight for gardeners and farmers because the wriggling invertebrates recycle nutrients from soil, making them more accessible to plants. As worms burrow, they consume almost e… [+3243 chars]
Apr 6 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith There is another way to utilize the mountain of plastic that is waiting to be thrown away: use it to soak up surplus carbon dioxide. Graduate student Paul Savas fee… [+3640 chars]
Graphical abstract. Credit: Chemistry of Materials (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03513 The next generation of catalytic converters could have longer lifetimes and need fewer rare materials to… [+4844 chars]
Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – The next generation of catalytic converters could have longer lifetimes and need fewer rare materials to operate, a new study suggests. Catalytic converters turn harmful … [+4102 chars]
NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft was deactivated in November 2018, about ten years after it launched. The mission detected over 5,000 candidate exoplanets and 2,662 confirmed exoplanets using … [+9009 chars]
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from Villanova University have analyzed spectroscopic observations of a nearby old nova known as T Aurigae. Results of this study, published March … [+3194 chars]
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will have to cool their heels here on Earth for at least one extra day. The launch of Crew-4 had been schedule… [+2433 chars]
A new, elegant equation allows scientists to easily compute the quantum information lifetime of 12,000 different materials. Scientists have uncovered a mathematical shortcut for calculating an all-i… [+6692 chars]
Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has had a big week. After completing its 24th powered flight on the Red Planet on 3 April, its performance garnered the Ingenuity team at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Labora… [+3011 chars]
NASA is about to send its first private astronauts — also known as space tourists — to the International Space Station. Canadian investor and philanthropist Mark Pathy, American entrepreneur Larry C… [+1990 chars]
When it comes to deciding when and where the Ingenuity helicopter will fly, it's not a simple matter of plugging in a destination and hitting a button. The team's biggest concern is to preserve the h… [+1125 chars]
Innovation often leads to new products, but new methods can be just as groundbreaking. It was the chance to help develop those methods that drew chemical engineering doctoral student Soumil Joshi fr… [+6569 chars]
