Fighting Intolerance with Physics
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2023 – In a world experiencing growing inequality and intolerance, tools borrowed from science and mathematics could be the key to understanding and preventing […]
Elegantly Modeling Earth’s Abrupt Glacial Transitions
WASHINGTON, March 7, 2023 – Proxy data – indirect records of the Earth’s climate found in unlikely places like coral, pollen, trees, and sediments – show interesting […]
Your Gut’s Microbiome, On a Chip
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2023 – The gut is one of the most complex organs in the body. Inside, it teems with a diverse microbial population that interacts […]
Nanoparticles Self-Assemble to Harvest Solar Energy
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2023 – Solar-thermal technology is a promising environmentally friendly energy harvesting method with a potential role to play in solving the fossil fuel energy […]
Enhanced Arsenic Detection in Water, Food, Soil
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2023 – It is a cruel paradox that on a planet with a surface mostly covered by water, hundreds of millions of people don’t […]
The Perfect Pour: Model Predicts Beer Head Features
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2023 – From creating drinks with distinctive looks to providing aromas for connoisseurs, beer foam is big business. The complex interplay between the components […]
The Roar and Crackle of Artemis 1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2023 – When the Artemis 1 mission was launched by NASA’s Space Launch System, SLS, in November, it became the world’s most powerful rocket, […]
Optimal Layout for a Hospital Isolation Room to Contain COVID-19 Includes Ceiling Vent
WASHINGTON, February 7, 2023 – A group of researchers recently modeled the transmission of COVID-19 within an isolation room at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, U.K. […]
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings and Scientists Make Jewelry
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2023 – The further out in time, the more unreliable a weather forecast. That’s because small variations in initial weather conditions can completely change […]