A team of scientists from the University of Essex has boosted crop productivity by 27 percent by resolving two bottlenecks in photosynthesis–the process whereby plants…
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Massive, rapid production of vaccines to fight COVID-19 will require firms to share know-how not just about what to make, but how to make it,…
The Problem With Microwaving Tea: Why Microwaving Liquids Is Different From Other Heating Techniques
The silver-plated cup helps liquids heat through uniformly in microwaves. Credit: Baoqing Zeng Tea drinkers have been saying it for years. Water heated in a…
There is no question that motivation is one of the hardest and yet important factors in life. It’s the difference between success and failure, goal-setting…
MIT professor Azra Akšamija is an uncommonly versatile artist, architect, and scholar whose work explores cultural identity and conflict. Credit: Azra Akšamija Once displaced by…
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical…
An illustration of Deinosuchus from the journal’s cover. Credit: Illustration by Tyler Stone BA ’19, art and cinema; see his website https://tylerstoneart.wordpress.com A new study,…
Artists impression of the dinosaur’s final moments. Credit: Trudie Wilson Scientists in Southampton believe four bones recently found on the Isle of Wight belong to…
In the USA, where the curve of infections has not yet flattened since the beginning of the pandemic, 158,000 people have died from Covid-19 already.…
NASA, ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) worked recently to create the COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard, a platform that combines a wealth of…
September 12, 2019. (Click image for full view.) This photograph, taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS), captures the bright urban lights…
NIH study suggests our brains use distinct firing patterns to store and replay memories. In a study of epilepsy patients, researchers at the National Institutes…
An international research collaboration led by ETH Zurich and MIT has developed a mathematical method that can speed up search and rescue operations at sea.…
How hard could roasting beans at home really be? Sam and George go head-to-head in a coffee roasting competition to find out, and Candy Schibli,…
Transgender and gender-diverse adults are three to six times more likely as cisgender adults (individuals whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth)…
Illustration of the vagus nerve. Credit: Kenneth Probst/UCSF New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed…
A new study in Review of Economic Studies suggests that a large increase in the stock of immigrants to the United States would have little impact on…
August 2, 2020. (Click image for full, detailed view.) On August 2, 2020, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 (GOES-17) acquired this image of the…
Stone box with carved shell llama and rolled gold foil. Credit: Teddy Sequin A llama carved from a spondylus shell and a cylindrical laminated gold…