Present-day lithium batteries are efficient but involve a range of resource and environmental problems. Using…
Month: September 2014
Scientists make droplets move on their own
Droplets are simple spheres of fluid, not normally considered capable of doing anything on their…
Signature of aging in brain: Researchers suggest that the brain’s ‘immunological age’ is what counts
Evidence of a unique ‘signature’ that may be the ‘missing link’ between cognitive decline and…
Predicting landslides with light
A team of researchers in Italy are expanding the reach of optical fiber sensors ‘to…
‘Autotune’ software to make it quicker, easier and cheaper to model energy use of buildings
Building Energy Modeling uses computer simulations to estimate energy use and guide the design of…
Tooth buried in bone shows prehistoric predators tangled across land, sea
Before dinosaurs, it was thought the top aquatic and terrestrial predators didn’t often interact. But…
Simulations reveal an unusual death for ancient stars
Certain primordial stars — between 55,000 and 56,000 times the mass of our sun, or…
Hand size appears to stay constant, providing natural ‘ruler’
People tend to perceive their dominant hand as staying relatively the same size even when…
Greenland Ice Sheet more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought
A new study finds that the Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometers…
Climate change appears a mixed bag for common frog
After warmer winters, wood frogs breed earlier and produce fewer eggs, a researcher has found….