2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (452+ words) The machine fuses atoms and consumes vastly more energy than it releases, and both of those things are true at once. Aiden McMillan became interested in nuclear fusion at eight years old. He then spent two years reading and running…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (555+ words) The 2008 study he was copying contains one detail that decides whether this experiment works at all, and it is about timing. Jo Nagai started hand-raising Asian swallowtails in Kobe, Japan, as a second grader. When he released them, they did…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (453+ words) Nineteen miles and thirty-five days are the numbers that travelled. The number the authors handle most carefully is how little dye came back. On the morning of 19 September 2017, a diver in Lake Jackson, north of Tallahassee, ran a hose about…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (596+ words) Their visibility, however, has made them a major focus of scientific attention. Mammals are among the most closely studied organisms on the planet, and also among the most at risk. According to the international inventory that tracks species’ conservation status,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (265+ words) To solve the problem, researchers at the University of Hong Kong looked where everyone else had stopped. They found a fix by exploiting the unique carrier dynamics inside everyday silicon carbide transistors. Led by Professor Yuhao Zhang and PhD student…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (253+ words) A study published in Cell Reports Physical Science by lead author Behnood Bazmi and senior author Nenad Miljkovic at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrates a practical engineering solution. Rsearchers designed pure copper cold plates using topology optimization algorithms, and…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (511+ words) The finding is not about the water in the pond. It is about the narrow strip of ground around its edge, and how it is mown. Friendswood, Texas, sits about twenty miles inland from Galveston Bay, in a part of…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (428+ words) The stone defeated a rock saw, a drill and a sledgehammer, and that resistance was the first real clue to what it was. In May 2015, a prospector named David Hole was sweeping a metal detector through open box-ironbark forest about…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (495+ words) As the days go by, rescue teams are still scouring the area, desperately searching for survivors—especially in the buried tunnels of the Rasuwagadhi hydroelectric power station. Meanwhile, scientists are digging into the exact sequence of events that led to…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (333+ words) MIT chemistry professor Mei Hong co-led the study with Professor of Planetary Sciences, Sara Seager, publishing their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to track molecular structure in high resolution, Hong’s…...