Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Why cooperative workplaces boost your sense of freedom
Jack Welch, the legendary General Electric CEO, was infamous for firing the bottom 10% of his workforce every year, without exception. The company's market cap...
Mammal cloning cannot be endless: Mouse line fails at generation 58
There is a limit on how many times a mammal can be cloned before suffering "mutational meltdown," Japanese scientists have discovered, after making 1,200 clones...
Boron arsenide semiconductor sets record in quantum vibrations
You may not be able to hear it, but all solid materials make a sound. In fact, atoms—bound in lattices of chemical bonds—are never silent nor still: Under the p...
Earth's 40,000-year tilt cycle links Antarctic ice growth to subtropical productivity
Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica's ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away in the subtropical ocean, according...
Special forces study points to emotional intelligence training as a way to boost performance under stress
Emotional Intelligence (EI) training can improve employee well-being and prevent burn-out in high-stress environments, University of Queensland research has fou...
GNSS stations reveal fourfold turbulence during Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf melt
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are traditionally used for positioning, timing, and mapping information. In an open-access study...
Catchment planning boosts impact of small water retention measures
Flooding, drought, and the loss of soil and nutrients are well-known challenges in agricultural catchments. Climate change is making these problems more pronoun...
Boys ditch books when schools close—girls keep reading: Study
When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new...
Iron-substituted MoOₓ catalyst boosts oxygen evolution for alkaline water electrolysis
A Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) research team, led by Dr. Dahee Park at the Hydrogen Energy Materials Research Center, has successfully developed...
Chandra resolves why black holes hit the brakes on growth
Astronomers have an answer for a long-running mystery in astrophysics: why is the growth of supermassive black holes so much lower today than in the past? A stu...
Fish gill-inspired panels reveal path to efficient thermal mixing
A fascination with fish gills has led researchers at Cornell to develop a bio-inspired approach to mixing heat and molecules in fluids—findings that could infor...
Magnetic microbots steer quantum sensors inside living cells
Cells are squishy and soft. Tiny nanometer-sized particles such as quantum sensors cannot move freely inside them due to viscous drag, which makes sensing chall...