Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have refined the use of magnetic fields to improve the performance of doughnut-shaped fusion facilities … [+4373 chars]
From A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Copyright © 2022 by Linda Elkins-Tanton. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. … [+7240 chars]
Effect of spinetoram seed treatments on SFB infestation and cabbage damage rates The effects of spinetoram seed treatments were evaluated in both controlled and field environments. In a controlled e… [+4957 chars]
A lava lake in Hawaiis Kilauea caldera spent 10 years sloshing and churning before the volcano gave a bigger belch, researchers report. Kilauea erupted dramatically in 2018. Earthquakes, ash plumes,… [+3664 chars]
Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR , via Wikimedia Commons. We are used to thinking of data compression in connection with computers but a recent study with mice shows that brains compress data too… [+3877 chars]
Newswise — Tsukuba, Japan—Sleep regulation in a worm is not as different from sleep regulation in mammals, including humans, as you may think. Therefore, knowing how worms switch between being asleep… [+2894 chars]
When paint thinner, ink, and adhesives dry, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are released, which can be harmful to one’s health. One of the most common VOCs is xylene, which comes in three distinct … [+2449 chars]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is gearing up to start operations this summer, and one of its many assignments will be to search for primeval black holes in the early universe. A supermassive bla… [+3185 chars]
Many hypotheses seek to explain the particularly favorable properties of perovskite semiconductors for solar cells. Polarons or a giant Rashba effect, for example, are thought to play a major role. A… [+5135 chars]
Earth's magnetic field may not be heading toward a dramatic flip anytime soon, according to scientists who analyzed anomalies in the planet's invisible shield against solar wind and other radiation. … [+1823 chars]
The research supervised by leading astrophysicist Prof Stephen Smartt is based on analysis of a 2017 gravitational waves discovery. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast claim to have identified… [+2326 chars]
A hotter ocean is a hungrier oceanat least as far as fish predators are concerned. In a new field study published online June 9 in Science, Smithsonian scientists discovered predator impacts in the A… [+6137 chars]
