The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Arctic glaciers are leaking significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Glacial melt rivers and groundwater springs are transporting large volumes of methane from ...

Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

There's no need to start over again. Just as you did in science class, you can add other elements to neutralize the flavors.

Colorado Springs artist Jonathan Nishimoto blends science, mindfulness, and curiosity in his ever-evolving creative journey.

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As darkness fell across a windmill farm in western India, a spiky creature emerged from some nearby rocks to hunt. Its “large” brown eyes scanned the plateau, but it wasn’t the only one looking around ...

I’m an associate professor of color science, a field that combines physics and perception ... but they still appear white or achromatic, meaning without color. Mixtures of wavelengths combine and ...

The erosion threshold of sand-mud mixtures is investigated by analyzing the momentum balance of a sand particle or a mud parcel in the mixture bed surface, and a formula for the critical shear stress ...