Over half of people are unaware of the environmental effects of sunscreen

This summer, millions of people across the country have been digging out sunscreen to protect themselves from a ...

Oldest known giant rock scallop bead suggests California coastal trade began millennia earlier

Archaeologists have discovered two giant rock scallop beads that push back the clock on the first appearance of these ...

Charge-based strategy improves controlled delivery of therapeutic peptides from gelatin-based materials

Rice University engineers have developed a new strategy for controlling how therapeutic peptides are released from ...

The asteroid that may be three worlds

Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and largest E-type asteroids in the ...

Cosmic filaments help set first limits on dark matter's decay into gravitons

Composing some 85% of the universe's total mass, dark matter betrays its presence only through gravity, unlike ordinary matter. Yet through new research published in Physical Review D, a team led by ...

'Flying focus' laser overcomes key limitation in plasma-based particle accelerators

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional ...

Pulsed radiofrequency magnetic fields may disorient migratory birds, experiments suggest

Every year, millions of migratory birds travel between different geographical regions on Earth to find food, escape cold ...

Butterfly ranges shift worldwide amid climate change, with most species expanding their reach

A global analysis of range-shift records for 1,758 butterfly species—10% of known butterfly species—found that 80% had ...

Silver nanocatalysts switch reaction sites between power generation and hydrogen production

For the first time, researchers have discovered that the same silver (Ag) nanocatalyst operates at different reaction sites ...

Gut cells may measure hunger by how watery their insides become

Researchers led by Sa Kan Yoo at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have discovered that the ...

Researchers unlock high-res view of 2D materials by doing a microscopic twist

By rapidly twisting a microscopically small tip back and forth, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have unlocked ...

Swarms of tiny robots remove microplastics from soil and water

Microplastics, which are plastic particles under 5 millimeters, are a major and growing threat in both soil and water. They ...