Newswise — Topological insulators, or TIs, have two faces: Electrons flow freely along their surface edges, like cars on a superhighway, but can’t flow through the interior of the material at all. It… [+6532 chars]
A robust nanofiltration membrane that acts as a highly effective molecular sieve can avoid many of the problems with current polymer membranes. Filtration plays a crucial role in many industries, ra… [+3276 chars]
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Liverpool, has produced structural movies of a key enzyme involved in a biological pathway of greenhouse gas production that offer new in… [+3341 chars]
MOSCOW - A spacewalk by two Russians on Wednesday was ended abruptly due to a problem with the battery in cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev's suit, though at no point was he in any danger, the US and Russian s… [+1473 chars]
When some materials are cooled to a certain temperature, they lose electric resistance, becoming superconductors. In this state, an electric charge can course through the material indefinitely, mak… [+6117 chars]
Title:Eccentric debris belts reveal the dynamical history of the companion exoplanet Authors: Laetitia Rodet, and Dong Lai First authors institution: Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary S… [+4332 chars]
The diversity of vegetation configuration is the key to ecological restoration in open-pit coal mine dump. However, the recovery outcomes of different areas with the same vegetation assemblage patter… [+4425 chars]
Arabidopsis thaliana belongs to the crucifer family and serves researchers around the world as a common model organism that allows comparatively simple analyses of genetic information and the functio… [+4543 chars]
The long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns show that climate change is happening at a very fast pace. Continuous rise in temperatures, disruption of the usual balance of nature, change… [+2118 chars]
As you read this, our home, the Milky Way galaxy, and its cosmic neighbor, Andromeda, are traveling along a collision course. Billions of years from now, they'll smash together and amalgamate into a … [+3215 chars]
Recent research regarding a dinosaur nicknamed April, previously housed in the UK's Manchester Museum, has revealed rare new findings. Scientists made the discovery of gastroliths (stomach stones) i… [+3136 chars]
Physics connects seismic data to properties of rocks and sediments A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. Image from NASA's InSight Mars… [+4855 chars]
