A classification of drugs based on their environmental impact
Scientists at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and University center Unisanté classified 35 commonly used drugs in ...
Alone with violence: When both perpetrator and society silence the victim
Women subjected to domestic violence and abuse are often isolated. Their loneliness results not just from the manipulation ...
Doubling down on metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light
Harvard engineers unveiled the world's first visible-spectrum metasurfaces—ultra-thin, flat devices patterned with nanoscale ...
NASA's SPHEREx takes first images, preps to study millions of galaxies
NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...
Microalgae and bacteria team up to convert carbon dioxide into useful products
Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...
The rivers that science says shouldn't exist
Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how ...
Air pollution and traffic noise increase the risk of stroke through combination effect
Karolinska Institutet shows that air pollution and traffic noise together may pose a greater risk for stroke than either ...
Antitrust settlement could lower cost of buying a home
Since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) agreed in March to pay $418 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit, ...