ChemistryOn Contact, a Light-Activated Solution Kills Infectious Viruses and Bacteria A pathogenic germ, also known as a pathogen, is a microorganism such as a virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite that can cause disease in a…
BiologyAccording to a New Study, DNA Sequencing can Help Identify which Creatures are Most Likely to become Extinct A group of scientists led by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the University of California, Santa Cruz determined that genomic information about animals…
PhysicsMicromagnetics – a Field of Physics Micromagnetics is the study of magnetic material behavior at the micrometer scale. It entails the use of mathematical models and numerical simulations to investigate the…
PhysicsMetamagnetism When a material is exposed to a magnetic field, it exhibits a sudden increase in magnetization, which is known as metamagnetism. This behavior has been…
ChemistryUnderstanding Photocatalyst Stability for Water Splitting to Improve Hydrogen Production Because hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources may be utilized as a fuel that does not contribute to CO2 emissions, it is developing as a…
AstronomyExperiments are being Conducted to Determine the Freezing Point of Extraterrestrial Oceans in Order to Aid in the Search for Life University of Washington and University of California, Berkeley researchers conducted studies to determine the physical boundaries for the possibility of liquid water in freezing extraterrestrial…
BiologyGenomes from 240 Animal Species Illustrate what Distinguishes the Human Genome Mammals have adapted to practically every ecosystem on Earth over the last 100 million years. Scientists with the Zoonomia Project have been mapping mammalian genome…
AstronomyResearchers Examine the Size-luminance Relationship of Galaxies Less than a Billion Years After the Big Bang According to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and…
ChemistryIncreasing the Efficiency of Multi-Hole Water Oxidation Catalysis on Hematite Photoanodes With Low Bias Hematite (α-Fe2O3) is a promising material for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting due to its low cost, abundance, stability, and suitable band gap. Hematite photoanodes have…
ChemistrySodium Tellurite – an inorganic compound Sodium tellurite is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Na2TeO3. It is a white crystalline powder that is soluble in water. It is a…
ZoologyThe Famous Sled Dog Balto’s Genome Demonstrates Genetic Adaptations of Working Dogs Balto, the sled dog, has been immortalized in literature and film for his part in carrying vitally needed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925.…
AstronomyNorth America Nebula – an emission nebula The North America Nebula is a large emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,600 light years away from Earth. It is named after…