Incorporating nanocarbons as neural electrode coatings can enhance their surface area. However, microfabricating the electrodes requires the use of harmful chemicals and extreme heating. In an articl… [+6488 chars]
As you’re nearing the end of February, dates can get confusing. The irregular month, already unique in its 28-day length, sometimes has a 29th day, also known as Leap Day. This is even worse for the… [+1849 chars]
A new technique uses magnetic fields to align gold nanorods while preserving their underlying optical properties, report researchers. “Gold nanorods are of interest because they can absorb and scatt… [+2563 chars]
On August 27, 1883, a sound emerged from the Earth louder than anything recorded before or since. The volcanic eruption bellowed out from Krakatau, an uninhabited island between Java and Sumatra in … [+33056 chars]
In May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves… [+5637 chars]
Humans have always been amazed with the glinting, sparkling minerals that our Earth produces. But do all shining jewels originate underground? These objects do mostly come from geological processes a… [+4066 chars]
The photoelectric effect is one of the most fundamental light-matter interactions, which is widely used in probing ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules and condensed matters. It has been in the res… [+2749 chars]
Colloids are mixtures of microscopic particles suspended in fluidssubstances that are part solid, part liquid. Colloids are found in products including toothpaste, ketchup, paint and liquid hand soap… [+4830 chars]
Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Central Asia, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.Click on the image below to explore it in its full 10 m resolutio… [+2180 chars]
Super Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. getty Thirty-three light years. Thats nothing. Sure, its going to be impossible to ever actually visit the two new planets discovered around the sta… [+3127 chars]
The similarities of their odors, strikingly, predicted whether both felt there had been a positive connection 71 percent of the time. That finding implies that sniffing an odor similar to our own gen… [+1122 chars]
The composition of the bulk, the outer core of the Earth, is not pure iron but has a density deficit of about 510%, indicating the existence of a considerable amount of light elements in the outer co… [+6681 chars]
