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03/06/2020 / By Franz Walker

“Pantry” science: MIT researchers grow carbon nanotubes using common kitchen ingredients

When the subject of carbon nanotubes is brought up, most people probably won’t think of something that can be cooked up in a kitchen. However, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have done just that – creating carbon nanotubes with the help of common household materials. Led by Richard Li, a graduate student in […]

02/19/2020 / By Evangelyn Rodriguez

New research reveals a way to stop Ebola virus from replicating

The Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a rare but highly contagious disease caused by Zaire ebolavirus, or simply the Ebola virus. Due to the high fatality rate associated with EVD, the Ebola virus is considered one of the scariest human pathogens today. Despite efforts to develop treatments, there is still no cure for EVD. But scientists […]

02/09/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

French researchers claim to have created metallic hydrogen in a lab: Material can “conduct electricity indefinitely at room temperature”

Metallic hydrogen is a state of hydrogen wherein the element is able to conduct electricity. Scientists have spent close to a century attempting to create this material. A team of French researchers now claim that they’ve done it. Normally, hydrogen isn’t a great conductor. However, physicists since the 1930s have suspected that if hydrogen were to be […]

01/25/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Study suggests Europa, Jupiter’s Moon, contains table salt in its oceans just like the oceans on Earth

A study published in the journal Science Advances believes that subterranean oceans lurking underneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a similar salt composition to oceans on Earth after the Hubble Space Telescope spotted sodium chloride, or salt, on the surface of the icy moon. Scientists now believe that other similarities may be discovered between the oceans of the two worlds. Four different […]

12/15/2019 / By Arsenio Toledo

Researchers design cost-efficient, clean fuel cells that might soon replace traditional gas engines in cars

Fuel cell technology has been around for some time. The first truly modern fuel cell vehicles came from the 1950s and 1960s, when they were used on experimental vehicles such as the 1966 Electrovan, a van which was outfitted with a fuel cell that took up so much space it could only fit two people. Fuel cell technology was even used by […]

12/15/2019 / By Grace Olson

Inspired by photosynthesis in plants, researchers create liquid fuel with just water and carbon dioxide

Chemists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign managed to successfully create liquid fuel from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water using gold nanoparticles. The process was inspired by photosynthesis, the energy production method of plants. The study was a collaboration between Sungju Yu, a postdoctoral researcher and Prashaint Jain, a chemistry professor. They published their findings in Nature Communications, contributing […]

11/30/2019 / By Arsenio Toledo

Liquid water on Pluto? Gases trapped in a layer of ice could be what keeps an underground ocean from freezing, report researchers

Scientists believe that a layer of gassy material on Pluto’s surface is stopping an ocean underneath it from freezing over. New models of Pluto’s evolution suggest that this gassy layer is helping to insulate this body of water. If their calculations are correct, this means that these gases, if present in other planets, can potentially harbor life-supporting bodies […]

10/23/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Swiss startup invents higher-performance electric car battery that can leave Tesla batteries in the dust

A startup in the tiny mountainous country of Switzerland promises to deliver what electric car giant Tesla Motors has failed to pull off. Its new lithium-ion battery is said to store and produce far more power for vehicles than existing designs. Swiss company Innolith claims that an electric vehicle equipped with its lithium battery would […]

10/08/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Scientists bewildered by “mysterious crystals” found in the core of giant alien planets

Strange crystals might form in the incredibly hot and pressurized cores of exoplanets in other star systems. Researchers think that these mysterious mineral formations may determine the environmental conditions on the surface of the planet, including the ability to support life. The planets of our solar system fall into one of two groups: They are […]

10/05/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Electricity in unlikely places: Rock surfaces throughout the planet may act as natural solar panels

Rocks might not strike you as a potential source of clean and renewable energy, much less a substitute for solar panels. But Chinese researchers found that some stones sport metallic coats that naturally convert sunlight into electricity via the same process as photosynthetic organisms. The coating contains iron and manganese, two minerals used in photovoltaic […]

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