As a kid, Justin Boutilier would sometimes get roped into helping his dad, a paramedic and firefighter, perform automated external defibrillator demonstrations in and around his hometown of Niagara Falls, Canada. “If a kid can use an AED, so can you,” he says, recalling one of his dad’s messages during those visits to local office buildings or […]

New research led by Northwestern University can help officials identify hidden networks of officers engaging in misconduct and criminal behavior within police organizations. The study shows that police misconduct is a group phenomenon that contributes to a disproportionate number of arrests in minority communities. The study, “Identifying Misconduct-Committing Officer Crews in the Chicago Police Department,” […]

Nestled 30 feet underground in Menlo Park, California, a half-mile-long stretch of tunnel is now colder than most of the universe. It houses a new superconducting particle accelerator, part of an upgrade project to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Crews have successfully cooled the accelerator […]

In our sun’s neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to identify the widest range of elements in a star beyond our solar system yet. The study, led by University of Michigan astronomer Ian Roederer, has identified 65 elements in the star, HD 222925. […]

Researchers in the US have isolated partially fluorinated trityl cations and demonstrated that they can act as powerful hydride abstraction agents for organometallic reactions.  The trityl (or triphenylmethyl, Ph3C+) cation is ubiquitous in organometallic chemistry and catalysis. Three bulky phenyl groups stabilise a positively charged central carbon atom allowing for its isolation, and the electron-deficient […]

Soil samples gathered by China’s Chang’E-5 spacecraft in late 2020 have been tested as catalysts for water splitting and carbon dioxide conversion. The goal is to be able to make oxygen, hydrogen and other fuels on the moon, using only materials available their. That would reduce the need to transport chemicals from Earth, which is […]

Each day, millions of us load fresh fruit and flowers into our shopping baskets. The global trade in cut flowers and citrus fruits together are worth around €30 billion. When it comes to embracing technology, however, these big businesses tend to remain stuck in the past. In 2017, serendipity brought Martina Drobná into contact with […]

Even with brilliant, original ideas, social innovators are often limited by funding and skills shortages when it comes to scaling up. A new Horizon Europe call is opening on May 12 2022 to set up a European Social Innovation Catalyst Fund that will help social innovators grow their ideas. Social innovators find new ways to […]

An explosion has left one contractor dead and another seriously injured at a chemicals plant in Krems, Austria, operated by Krems Chemie Chemical Services. The blast happened as the two men were performing cutting work on a tank on 5 May, and destroyed around half of the building, according to local news reports. The injured […]

For those of us, who grew up in the UK with real maps printed on paper, rather than the online digital version offered up by Google Maps, the Ordnance Survey has been delivering up ever more accurate and detailed maps of the entire British Isles since their original Principal Triangulation of Great Britain carried out […]