A team of scientists has created a bowl-shaped electrode with ‘hot edges’ which can efficiently convert carbon dioxide from gas into carbon based fuels and chemicals, helping combat the climate …read more Source:: Science
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Research on repetitive worm behavior may have implications for understanding human disease
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•Studying microscopic worms, scientists have identified a brain circuit that drives repetitive behavior — providing potential clues for understanding some human psychiatric conditions. …read more Source:: Science
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
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•For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how Earth’s moon formed. Now researchers say they may have the answer. …read more Source:: Science
New fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’
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•When India slammed into Asia, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. Now scientists have identified one more effect: the oxygen in the …read more Source:: Science
The buzz about bumble bees isn’t good
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•While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively few study bumble bees. The good news is that a new study provides an estimate on bumble bee …read more Source:: Science
Scientists drill into white graphene to create artificial atoms
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•By drilling holes into a thin two-dimensional sheet of hexagonal boron nitride with a gallium-focused ion beam, scientists have created artificial atoms that generate single photons, which work in air …read more Source:: Science
Electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny batteries, big medical advances
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•These strange bacteria conduct electricity via a structure never before seen in nature — a structure scientists can co-opt to miniaturize electronics, create powerful-yet-tiny batteries, build pacemakers without wires and …read more Source:: Science
Scientists discover first organism with chlorophyll genes that doesn’t photosynthesize
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•For the first time scientists have found an organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis. The peculiar organism is dubbed ‘corallicolid’ because it is found in …read more Source:: Science
Yellowstone elk don’t budge for wolves, say scientists
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•Elk roam the winter range that straddles the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park with little regard for wolves, according to a new study illustrating how elk can tolerate living …read more Source:: Science
Horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions
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•By analyzing troves of genetic data and considering a vast number of possible ways to examine it, scientists now have a high degree of confidence that horseshoe crabs do indeed …read more Source:: Science