Longitudinal electrostriction strain coefficient of 10 mol% doped ceria ceramics as a function of dopant crystal radius. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43032-5 The ceramic produced in Prof. Igor Lubomirsky’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science seemed too good to be true. It belongs to a class of materials that are the backbone of many … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Australian parliament will conduct a national inquiry into the dangers of “forever chemicals.” The move comes after a string of revelations about the potential dangers of the substances, including news this week that Sydney Water has detected the chemicals in the city’s drinking water sources. Independent senator Lidia Thorpe, who … Read more
NIST researcher Elizabeth Strychalski’s research group is helping to establish the measurements and standards needed for progress in engineering biology, also known as synthetic biology. Credit: J. Stoughton/NIST For over a decade, scientists have made extraordinary progress on the long-held dream of fabricating an entire cell from nonliving molecules and materials. Such synthetic (or “engineered“) … Read more
Bird species richness in Angurai (10–12 August 2004), Busia (14–15 August 2004) and Lambwe Valley (17–20 August 1997) sites. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52107-2 Sub-Saharan Africa has a vast amount of uncultivated, arable land—about 2 million km2, accounting for about 50% of the global total. This land is a critical habitat for many animal species, … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Search and rescue for missing persons is always challenging for the specialist recovery teams involved, regardless of the environment they’re working in. But the teams looking for the missing aboard the Bayesian yacht which sank off the coast of Sicily leaving several people dead, have faced particularly challenging conditions. Even though … Read more
CAPTION: Map of the GothamQ network under New York City boroughs. Credit: Physics Magazine via APS To introduce quantum networks into the marketplace, engineers must overcome the fragility of entangled states in a fiber cable and ensure the efficiency of signal delivery. Now, scientists at Qunnect Inc. in Brooklyn, New York, have taken a large … Read more
A frog and a tarantula make good housemates. Credit: Francesco Tomasinelli and Emanuel Biggi So much science news this week. It’s like a torrential deluge of information bursting explosively through a levee of ignorance. Who built that levee, anyway? How did they get that through the legislature? Anyway, of the hundreds of stories we reported … Read more
Credit: Price et al. (2024) Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards the supermassive black hole is spaghettified and torn to shreds. The resulting fireworks are known as … Read more
The western prairie fringed orchid is seen blooming on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, on the Sheyenne National Grassland in North Dakota. The orchid has declined due to loss of its native prairie habitat, among other factors, and is classified as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. Credit: AP Photo/Jack Dura On a … Read more
by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS Overview of FLOWER based photothermal microscopy system. A schematic illustration of the photothermal microscopy setup. The pump light travels through free space, guided by a galvo mirror (GM) that controls the position of the laser spot on the microtoroid. The probe light … Read more
