Science and Technolgy blog
During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren’t stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must get put back together. When that…
Australian engineers have unveiled a clever new device — based on a modified speargun — as a cheap and efficient way to test seabed soil when designing offshore wind farms.
Researchers have developed a hydrogel implant that can help prevent endometriosis, a condition that affects a great many women. This innovation also acts as a contraceptive.
New experimental results show particles called muons can be corralled into beams suitable for high-energy collisions, paving the way for new physics.
An international team of physicists has proven new theorems in quantum mechanics that describe the ‘energy landscapes’ of collections of quantum particles. Their work addresses decades-old questions, opening up new routes to make computer simulation of materials much more accurate.…
Opioid medications offer people relief from debilitating pain, but these drugs come with dangers: the risk for addiction, miserable withdrawal symptoms and the potential for fatal overdose. Researchers have now identified a strategy to design safer opioids. They showed that…
Researchers engineered a new technique to identify at the nanoscale level what components are overheating in electronics and causing their performance to fail.
Polyphenols are generally toxic to microorganisms. In peatlands, scientists thought microorganisms avoided this toxicity by degrading polyphenols using an oxygen-dependent enzyme, and thus that low-oxygen conditions inhibit microbes’ carbon cycling. However, a new study found that Arctic peatland microorganisms used…
As sea ice disappears and grows less reflective, the Arctic has lost around a quarter of its cooling power since 1980, and the world has lost up to 15%, according to new research.
The most threatened reef fishes are also the most overlooked by scientists and the general public. Scientists measured the level of human interest in 2,408 species of marine reef fish and found that the attention of the scientific community is…
