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The Indian Roller's Colour Isn't Pigment, How Feather Structure Creates That Impossible Blue
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (547+ words) inkl The Indian Roller's Colour Isn't Pigment, How Feather Structure Creates That Impossible Blue A Bird With No Blue Pigment The Indian roller has no blue pigment anywhere in its body. Not in its skin, not in any fluid it…...
World's largest particle smasher halts for upgrade to boost hunt for dark matter
2+ week, 5+ day ago (680+ words) MEYRIN (SWITZERLAND) - The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision-capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe: dark matter. The Large Hadron…...
No rivers, no wells, no rain needed: How a Nobel…
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (846+ words) Imagine producing clean drinking water straight from the air, even in some of the driest places on Earth. That vision is becoming a reality thanks to a groundbreaking invention developed by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Professor Omar Yaghi, a chemist…...
Human-made chemicals are harming seals at the molecular level
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1047+ words) Ringed seals are among the most common marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic. They strongly rely on sea ice as a habitat, breathing through holes they maintain in the frozen surface, giving birth in snow lairs and diving beneath the…...
In 1926, a failed rubber coating experiment and a strange elastic solid accidentally changed the future of plastics
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (762+ words) In 1926, chemist Waldo Semon tried to solve the problem of rubber coating for B.F. Goodrich in Akron, Ohio, when he had no idea that his invention would revolutionise the plastics industry. But when the supply of rubber ran out, the course…...
Chemists make hydrogen from breadcrumbs in groundbreaking reaction that could replace some fossil fuels
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (374+ words) Breadcrumbs from food waste could replace fossil fuels as a source of hydrogen in one of the most common chemical reactions used in chemical manufacturing, new research suggests. Hydrogenation is a chemical process that inserts a molecule of hydrogen across…...
‘Energy transition without carbon capture is impossible’
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (1550+ words) In a first, India set aside Rs 20,000 crore in the recent Union budget for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS). This technology, adopted in a limited way by many countries, will be rolled out over the next five years in…...
Future spacecraft could fix their own damage using 'self-healing' materials
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (560+ words) inkl Future spacecraft could fix their own damage using 'self-healing' materials Spacecraft of the future may be able to detect and repair their own structural damage in orbit, a capability that could make long-duration missions and reusable launch vehicles more…...
Proteins before planets: How space ice may have created the 1st building blocks of life
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (359+ words) The chemistry that built life on Earth may have begun in deep space, according to a new study. The discovery could help to unravel one of science's central questions: what are the origins of life's molecular building blocks? It is…...
How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (855+ words) We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbours life. In the last 30 years, the question…...