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Thirstier Mountain Forests May Mean Less Water Downstream During Droughts

Thirstier Mountain Forests May Mean Less Water Downstream During Droughts

Researchers from North Carolina State University discovered that during extreme droughts, higher elevation forests in the Blue Ridge Mountains are often maintaining, if not increasing,…
Barium Tungstate – an Inorganic Chemical Compound

Barium Tungstate – an Inorganic Chemical Compound

Barium tungstate is an inorganic chemical compound of barium and the tungstate anion. It is a toxic, white powder used as a pigment and in…
HD 108874 c – a Gas Giant Exoplanet

HD 108874 c – a Gas Giant Exoplanet

HD 108874 c is a gas giant exoplanet in the habitable zone of a G-type star. It is a gas giant identified in 2005 that…
Electric Truck Hydropower, a Versatile Hydropower Solution for Mountainous Areas

Electric Truck Hydropower, a Versatile Hydropower Solution for Mountainous Areas

Mountain locations contain a lot of hydropower potential that can’t be fully realized with current technologies. Julian Hunt of IIASA and an international team of…
New Dental Tool Prototype Can Detect Acidic Conditions that Cause Cavities

New Dental Tool Prototype Can Detect Acidic Conditions that Cause Cavities

Cavities, also known as tooth decay or caries, are caused by a variety of causes, including germs in your mouth, frequent nibbling, drinking sugary drinks,…
A Camera with no Lenses captures 3D Cellular details in Living Tissue

A Camera with no Lenses captures 3D Cellular details in Living Tissue

The lensless Bio-FlatScope is a compact, low-cost camera that can detect biological activity that conventional devices cannot detect. The technology could someday be used to…
The Orbits of ‘Detached Objects’ Could Be Explained by Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine

The Orbits of ‘Detached Objects’ Could Be Explained by Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine

According to a new study, the dynamics of unusual things known as “detached objects” may be explained by bumper car-like interactions at the fringes of…
Microchips and Supercomputers are Becoming Increasingly Powerful

Microchips and Supercomputers are Becoming Increasingly Powerful

Any of a class of extraordinarily powerful computers is referred to as a supercomputer. The word is widely used to refer to the most powerful…
Higher Rates of Cardiovascular-Related Deaths among Apollo Astronauts

Higher Rates of Cardiovascular-Related Deaths among Apollo Astronauts

According to a Florida State University researcher, members of the successful Apollo space program are having greater incidences of cardiovascular ailments, which are assumed to…
The Interaction between Topology and Magnetism has a Promising Future

The Interaction between Topology and Magnetism has a Promising Future

Understanding the interaction between magnetism and highorder topology in a quantum material is currently one of the most difficult research fields in materials science, with…
Small Impacts are Reworking the Moon’s Soil More Quickly Than Scientists Expected

Small Impacts are Reworking the Moon’s Soil More Quickly Than Scientists Expected

Small impacts are churning the Moon’s surface more than 100 times faster than scientists previously imagined. This means that surface features that appear to be…
A Technology for Identifying Transistor Flaws is Revived and Improved

A Technology for Identifying Transistor Flaws is Revived and Improved

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revived and refined a once-reliable technology for identifying and counting faults in transistors, which are the…
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