4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (11+ words) A much more sensitive fentanyl detection strip, thanks to physics'Phys.org...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (510+ words) by Christopher Lyon, Jonathan D. Gordon, The Conversation Between 1347 and 1353, Europe was gripped by the most catastrophic pandemic in its history: the Black Death. Killing many millions, the plague wiped out between one-third and a half of Europe's population. In some…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (365+ words) March 5, 2026 dialog by Khalid N. Anindya When most people hear "polymer," they think of plastics. In our group, polymerization is a way to line up identical molecules like beads on a string and let quantum mechanics take over. Put magnetic building…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (401+ words) edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan The new diode emits infrared light in a desirable range of longer wavelengths (4,0005,000 nanometers) good for sensing gas in the air (think greenhouse gases in the sky) or in medical settings (think…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (337+ words) The Kiso horse is one of Japan's eight surviving native horse breeds, originating from the mountainous Kiso region of present-day Nagano and Gifu Prefectures. Compact and sure-footed, it was historically used for agricultural work and transport. In the twentieth century,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (246+ words) edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan The researchers, Seitzinger, Lahive, and Shaver, find directional terms such as "upcycling" and "downcycling" to be poorly defined as value propositions, and that their use can skew perceptions of the benefits, potentially…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (658+ words) "It's a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail," says Ashley Barnes, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany who is part of the team that obtained the new data. The…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (507+ words) edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin James Cook University (JCU) research argues Australians urgently need better education about heat to prepare for longer, hotter and more dangerous heat waves driven by climate change. Researchers of the JCU-led study,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1149+ words) by Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the possibility that it could be used as a protective coating to prevent solar cells and other infrastructure from…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (357+ words) So-called "eco-friendly" bamboo and other bio-based dishes, often marketed as natural and safe alternatives to plastic, may release potentially harmful chemicals into food, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT…...