Science
Scientific discoveries and research
What climate change is costing California
From heat-related illness and deaths to lost work hours and higher insurance and utility bills, climate change is already affecting California's economy. A new...
Supercomputer reveals how size could shape the future of nanomedicine
Scientists have long been interested in cellular nanodiscs, tiny particles made from natural cell membranes that mimic many of the functions of living cells. Wh...
Water as we've never known it: Physicists test water beyond Earth-like conditions
Water isn't always as it seems. Under extreme conditions, such as those found on other planets, it has been discovered to change its atomic structure, giving it...
Aurora supercomputer powers two of the largest cosmological simulations to date
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have completed two of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed. Each...
'Smoking gun' may help solve mystery of high-temperature superconductivity
Superconductivity has many important practical applications, including creating powerful magnets used in high-resolution medical scans, transporting electricity...
Fluorescent reaction maps reveal how catalyst activity changes with operating conditions
Catalysts spur chemical reactions used across industries, from producing fuels and medicines to manufacturing chemicals and treating pollutants. Improving their...
How a cold pulse in the Northwest Atlantic reshaped East Coast fisheries
Fishers in the Northeast began noticing an unusual shift in the summer of 2023. Some familiar catches, including shortfin and longfin squid, declined, while col...
The bioeconomy is gaining ground worldwide, report shows
Oil and natural gas still account for the vast majority of the world's energy and raw materials, with all the associated environmental and biodiversity conseque...
Filling the gaps in global rainfall maps
Global rainfall maps are built from observations collected by multiple satellites, but they have an important limitation. The satellites that provide these meas...
Custom frame timing captures ultrafast events across five orders of magnitude in time
Most conventional methods of ultrafast photography use evenly spaced intervals in which images are taken, but new developments have shown how much can be left o...
Seven-minute virtual reality intervention helps students tackle stress and exam anxiety
A seven-minute virtual reality (VR) intervention can help students feel calmer, less anxious and better able to cope with academic pressure, according to new re...
Research concludes that Shakespeare wrote 'Edward III' with Marlowe
Dr. Rory Loughnane, a reader in early modern studies in the School of Humanities, has confirmed "beyond any reasonable doubt" that William Shakespeare was the p...