Phosphorene nanoribbons – a promising material synthesised just three years ago – have already found their first application, in a perovskite solar cell.1 ‘It is impressive that such excellent results have come through [the] pipeline so rapidly,’ comments David Lewis from the University of Manchester, UK, who was not involved in the study. Phosphorene is […]

RMDS Lab, a data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform based in California, plans to create the first non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for science and technology intellectual property before the end of March. RMDS was founded by IBM’s former chief data scientist Alex Liu in 2009 to create a global community of data scientists and researchers and […]

An isotope of magnesium has been discovered that has a shorter half-life than the time it takes to attract electrons, representing a potential boundary to chemistry when it comes to the chart of nuclides. More than 3000 different nuclides – isotopes of the elements – have been discovered to date, although only 252 are considered […]

It starts with a superspreader, and winds its way through a network of interactions, eventually leaving no one untouched. Those who have been exposed previously may only experience mild effects. No, it’s not a virus. It’s the contagious spread of misinformation and disinformation— misinformation that’s fully intended to deceive. Now Tufts University researchers have come […]

Scientists with the USF Genomics program and Center for Global Health and Infectious Disease Research have taken a significant step in providing the people of Rwanda the scientific tools they need to help address mental health issues that stemmed from the 1994 genocides of the Tutsi ethnic group. In a first of its kind study, […]

An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, not only flares irregularly from day to day but also in the long term. The team analyzed 15 years’ worth of data to come to this conclusion. The research was initiated […]

New UCLA-led research in mice suggests that adding a certain type of tomato concentrate to the diet can reduce the intestinal inflammation that is associated with HIV. Left untreated, intestinal inflammation can accelerate arterial disease, which in turn can lead to heart attack and stroke. The findings provide clues to how the altered intestinal tract […]

Recorded lectures have become a routine part of course instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, and college students often try to pack more learning into a shorter span by watching these recordings at double their normal speed or even faster. But does comprehension suffer as a result? Surprisingly, no — up to a point. A new UCLA […]

Masks, social distancing, proper hygiene and ventilation can help reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in public places, but even with these measures, scientists have detected airborne SARS-CoV-2 in indoor settings. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters have developed a passive air sampler clip that can help assess personal exposure to SARS-CoV-2, which could […]

In a study conducted at the University of São Paulo’s Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center (HUG-CELL) in Brazil, serial systemic injections of zika virus into mice with brain tumors destroyed the cancer without causing neurological damage or injuring other organs, and increased the animals’ survival rate. The scientists also injected zika into cerebral […]