A new technique enables the use of fatty acids—for example, those found in cooking oil from fast-food restaurants—to dissolve and separate silver. The process requires light and diluted hydrogen peroxide. The technique ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 12, 2025
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Existing legislation which governs finance and investment can help to protect society from the dangers associated with advances in quantum computing, a new study shows.
Economics & Business
May 6, 2025
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In a new study, Dartmouth researchers trained an AI language-identification model inspired by Google Translate to recognize Navajo with near-perfect accuracy.
Social Sciences
May 1, 2025
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What if saving one animal species from extinction at a time isn't the most effective approach? Michael Belitz, a Michigan State University postdoctoral researcher in the Zipkin Quantitative Ecology Lab, asked himself that ...
Ecology
Feb 24, 2025
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Every year, 400 million tons of plastic products are produced worldwide, half of which are single-use items discarded within a year. In particular, non-biodegradable plastic waste, which takes over 500 years to decompose ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2024
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In the aftermath of a collision of neutron stars, a new celestial object called a remnant emerges, shrouded in mystery. Scientists are still unraveling its secrets, including whether it collapses into a black hole and how ...
Astronomy
Aug 7, 2024
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Researchers have shown how different swimming formations may save fish energy and suggest that they only switch positions to save energy for the group when under pressure.
Ecology
May 22, 2024
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As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these ...
Environment
Apr 19, 2024
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In recent years, artificial intelligence technologies, especially machine learning algorithms, have made great strides. These technologies have enabled unprecedented efficiency in tasks such as image recognition, natural ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 2, 2024
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In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers examined neutron star mergers using THC_M1, a computer code that simulates neutron star mergers and accounts for the bending of spacetimes, due to the ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2023
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