Researchers captured how a molecule and its surrounding water reorganize together during a rapid energy-transfer reaction that plays a key role in nature. A chemical process central to photosynthesis, metabolism, and other forms of energy conversion has now been captured in unusual detail, revealing how a molecule and the water around it change together as […]
Scientists Capture a Fundamental Energy-Transfer Reaction in Remarkable Detail
Researchers captured how a molecule and its surrounding water reorganize together during a rapid energy-transfer reaction that plays a key role in nature. A chemical process central to photosynthesis, metabolism, and other forms of energy conversion has now been captured in unusual detail, revealing how a molecule and the water around it change together as […]
Researchers Borrow Chipmaking Technology To Build Better EV Batteries
Researchers used nanoscale manufacturing techniques from the semiconductor industry to design a copper current collector that helps lithium build up evenly during battery charging. Electric vehicles could travel farther on a single charge if their batteries could store more energy without getting bigger or heavier. A promising alternative, known as an anode-free battery, eliminates materials […]
Scientists Just Built the World’s Most Accurate Clock
Lutetium clocks have achieved record accuracy and comparison precision, making them promising candidates for future time standards and measurements of gravity. An atomic clock built from the element lutetium at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has set a new benchmark for timekeeping accuracy. Results published in Nature […]
Scientists Find Signs of Brain Aging Decades Before Cognitive Symptoms
Some brains appear to age faster than their owners, and clues to that difference may be hiding in the gut. A UCLA Health study links patterns of brain activity in generally healthy adults to gut bacteria and the chemicals associated with them. The findings raise the possibility that biological signs of brain aging can be […]
Scientists Find Signs of Brain Aging Decades Before Cognitive Symptoms
Some brains appear to age faster than their owners, and clues to that difference may be hiding in the gut. A UCLA Health study links patterns of brain activity in generally healthy adults to gut bacteria and the chemicals associated with them. The findings raise the possibility that biological signs of brain aging can be […]
Scientists Find Signs of Brain Aging Decades Before Cognitive Symptoms
Some brains appear to age faster than their owners, and clues to that difference may be hiding in the gut. A UCLA Health study links patterns of brain activity in generally healthy adults to gut bacteria and the chemicals associated with them. The findings raise the possibility that biological signs of brain aging can be […]
Scientists Find a “Pain Switch” That Could Shut Down Arthritis Pain
A protein involved in sensing warmth could offer a way to relieve arthritis pain without reducing inflammation, based on experiments in mice. For people with arthritis, pain relief can be incomplete or short-lived even with treatment. Scientists at the University of Warwick have identified a possible way to interrupt that pain directly at nerve endings […]
This 4,000-Year-Old Wall in Morocco Is Rewriting the History of North Africa
A probable defensive structure at Oued Beht suggests communities in northwestern Africa coordinated large building projects about 4,000 to 3,500 years ago. At Oued Beht, an archaeological site in the hills of northwestern Morocco, a large, wall-like structure suggests that people were protecting their communities or asserting control over the surrounding landscape about 4,000 to […]
This 4,000-Year-Old Wall in Morocco Is Rewriting the History of North Africa
A probable defensive structure at Oued Beht suggests communities in northwestern Africa coordinated large building projects about 4,000 to 3,500 years ago. At Oued Beht, an archaeological site in the hills of northwestern Morocco, a large, wall-like structure suggests that people were protecting their communities or asserting control over the surrounding landscape about 4,000 to […]