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This Breakthrough "Spiking" Battery Can Pump Out Lightning-Fast Bursts of Energy
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (374+ words) It fills a troubling gap in keeping our future power grids flowing, scientists say. When cloud cover parks itself over a solar farm or an AI data center receives a sudden surge in computing requests, the grid has seconds'or less'to…...
The Next "Forever Chemical" May Already Be in the Air. Scientists Still Don"t Understand What It Could Do.
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (520+ words) They weren't even looking for it'it showed up while tracking how pollution forms. One of the downsides of modern life is the proliferation of chemicals in the natural environment. Arguably the most well-known of these chemical culprits are per- and…...
Scientists Built a Bizarre New Atom That Isn't Supposed to Work Like. .. That
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (28+ words) Atoms that occur in nature interact with the electromagnetic field at a single point, allowing scientists to make certain assumptions about energy levels with point-like references. However, .. ....
Scientists Turned Our Cells Into Quantum Computers'Sort Of
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (34+ words) Keeping a qubit stable is difficult enough, even in an ideal environment. Now, researchers have figured out how to make a protein behave like a qubit in a living cell. Fluorescent proteins were used. .....
Scientists Made Glue So Strong, It Can Tow An Entire Car
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (30+ words) Researchers have found a way to synthesize polyesters from leftover cooking oil, including a powerful adhesive. The fatty acids in cooking oil are ideal for making polymers because the hydrocarbon. .....
Scientists Are Using Sound Waves to Bend Materials to Their Will
2+ week, 2+ day ago (189+ words) Futuristic control of structure in some materials is being made possible by a physics loophole. Medieval knights may often have been equipped with some intimidating armor, but while a metal suit could be molded to exact body proportions, there was…...
Scientists Think Our Ancestors Ate Toxic Plants'And Lived to Tell The Tale
3+ week, 1+ day ago (323+ words) A new study from a 7, 000-year-old settlement in North Macedonia reveals evidence that ancient peoples near the Mediterranean processed toxic plants for safe consumption. In many ways, ancient peoples don't get nearly enough intellectual credit, but misleading portrayals are slowly…...
Chemists Discovered a Brand New Kind of Chemical Reaction
4+ week, 2+ day ago (228+ words) The reaction can form and break apart ultra-strong sulfur-sulfur bonds within seconds, which could have major implications in multiple fields. "We were also able to make analogs of polyethylene that can be made, used, and then un-made so the plastic…...
Scientists Tracked Particles Floating Through the Air'And Solved a 100-Year-Old Mystery
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (180+ words) Popular Mechanics Accurately modeling irregularly-shaped particles isn't easy, but a new study found a way to improve a century-old idea. In a new study published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Duncan Lockerby, a mathematician at the University of Warwick…...
A Rule of Chemistry Stood for 100 Years. Now, Scientists Have Broken It'Twice.
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (267+ words) Researchers synthesized weird molecules that exist in three dimensions, breaking Bredt's rule and Some scientific rules were made to be broken. It used to be thought that molecules could not form some bonds in certain locations, and on the heels…...