A sudden shift in global shipping routes created an accidental large-scale experiment that allowed scientists to observe how cleaner ship fuel alters cloud formation. Their analysis showed a dramatic drop in cloud-forming particles, confirming…
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Cleaner Ship Fuel Is Quietly Changing Clouds Over the Atlantic
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Space Dust Reveals the Arctic Is Melting Faster Than Expected
Cosmic dust trapped, or blocked, by Arctic ice allowed researchers to map 30,000 years of sea-ice history. Their findings show strong connections between melting ice, nutrient cycling, and future changes to the Arctic food web. Arctic sea ice has…
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Rafts of Magnetic Bubbles Adopt Glassy States
Author(s): Charles Day
A magnetic field coaxes nanoscale magnetic domains into a disordered 2D lattice.
[Physics 18, s159] Published Thu Dec 11, 2025
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Stepwise Quantum Tunneling Seen in Ultracold Atoms
Author(s): Andrea Parlangeli
Trapped atoms exhibit discrete step-like behavior across a barrier, mimicking the quantum tunneling behavior in superconducting circuits.
[Physics 18, 197] Published Thu Dec 11, 2025
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The Biochip Built for the Next Pandemic – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science started developing a DNA chip that could not only quickly show how our immune system responds to this…
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Paper mill waste could unlock cheaper clean energy
Researchers have developed a catalyst sourced from renewable plant waste that shows strong potential for speeding up clean hydrogen production. The material is produced by embedding nickel oxide and iron oxide nanoparticles into carbon fibers…
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Researchers catch atoms standing still inside molten metal
Researchers have found that, inside a liquid, not every atom is moving. Some atoms stay fixed in place even when the temperature is very high. These motionless atoms have a major effect on how a liquid turns into a solid, including the creation…
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New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics | MIT News
MIT researchers have developed a new fabrication method that could enable the production of more energy efficient electronics by stacking multiple functional components on top of one existing circuit.
In traditional…
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Scientists Confirm Nanotyrannus Was Fully Grown Not a Baby T. rex
New research has overturned decades of uncertainty by showing that Nanotyrannus was a fully grown predator, not a juvenile T. rex. For many years, paleontologists have debated whether the single skull used to define the species Nanotyrannus…
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New research reveals how everyday cues secretly shape your habits
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have identified a way the brain’s learning system can shift depending on the activity of a particular protein. Their work shows that the ability to connect cues with rewarding outcomes can be…
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