Enzymes are crucial to life. They are nature’s little catalysts. In the gut, they help us digest food. They can enhance perfumes or get laundry cleaner with less energy. Enzymes also make potent drugs to treat disease. Scientists naturally are eager to create new enzymes. They imagine them doing everything from drawing greenhouse gases out…
Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird’s fully preserved skull in the journal…
When it comes to getting people to want to go places, the future is ever more lovely than the past, according to a new Washington State University-led study in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. When it comes to getting people to want to go places, the future is ever more lovely than the past,…
It’s difficult to know what birds “think” when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds’ heads. It’s difficult to know what birds “think” when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds’ heads. Plants & Animals…
Finding lubricants that work at exceptionally high temperatures challenges researchers and industries alike. A Virginia Tech team may have uncovered a promising candidate by happenstance: transition metal spinel oxides formed on nickel-chromium-based superalloys. Finding lubricants that work at exceptionally high temperatures challenges researchers and industries alike. A Virginia Tech team may have uncovered a promising candidate…
People seem to assume that expensive branded drugs will be less likely to cause them harm than their generic counterparts, which manifests via the “nocebo effect” People seem to assume that expensive branded drugs will be less likely to cause them harm than their generic counterparts, which manifests via the “nocebo effect” New Scientist – News
In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have demonstrated the quantum version of the strong Mpemba effect (sME) in a single trapped ion system. In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have demonstrated the quantum version of the strong Mpemba effect (sME) in a single trapped ion system. Quantum Physics Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft “invisible” to radar. The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft “invisible” to radar. Condensed Matter Optics…
A pair of marine biologists at Harvard University has found that one of the main purposes of the cownose ray’s tail is to serve as a fine-tuned antenna. In their study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Júlia Chaumel and George Lauder dissected multiple cownose ray specimens to learn more…
Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the University of Duisburg-Essen were able to make significant observations of collision speed and electrical charge of the particles through experiments on a…