What’s Behind the ‘Pop and Slosh’ When Opening a Swing-Top Bottle of Beer?
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2025 — In a fun experiment, Max Koch, a researcher at the University of Göttingen in Germany — who also happens to be passionate […]
‘Fishial’ Recognition: Neural Network Identifies Coral Reef Sounds
WASHINGTON, March 11, 2025 – Coral reefs are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world’s oceans, one quarter […]
Heat from the Sun Affects Seismic Activity on Earth
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2025 – Seismology has revealed much of the basics about earthquakes: Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually […]
Mimicking Shark Skin to Create Clean Cutting Boards
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2025 – Keeping work surfaces clean during meat processing is a challenge. Bacteria from meat can attach, grow, and build up to create a […]
Rapid Environmental Change Can Threaten Even a Peaceful Daisyworld
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2025 – Imagine a world filled only with daisies. Light-colored daisies reflect sunlight, cooling down the planet, while darker daisies absorb sunlight, warming it […]
Music Can Touch the Heart, Even Inside the Womb
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2025 – Playing music has long been a way for expectant parents to connect with their children in the womb, but a group of […]
Listening for Multiple Mental Health Disorders
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2025 – It’s no secret that there is a mental health crisis in the United States. As of 2021, 8.3% adults had major depressive […]
Novel Lab-on-Chip Platform Promises to Expedite Cancer Diagnoses
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2025 – Cancer accounted for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 – almost one in every six deaths globally – according to the World […]
Imagining the Physics of George R.R. Martin’s Fictional Universe
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2025 – Many science fiction authors try to incorporate scientific principles into their work, but Ian Tregillis, who is a contributing author of the […]