What's Stopping Us From Using Recycled Wood in Buildings?
The construction industry is a gigantic source of trash. In the European Union, for example, it accounts for 35% of total waste generation and half of all materials extracted. One way to reduce that r ...
What Thorium Can Tell Us About the Universe
Special thanks to Chuankun Zhang, Tian Ooi, Jacob S. Higgins, and Jack F. Doyle from Prof. Jun Ye's lab at JILA/NIST/University of Colorado, as well as Prof. Victor Flambaum from UNS ...
U.S. Bird Populations Continue Their Alarming Decline
More than five years after a landmark study in the journal Science showed that North American bird populations declined by ...
Twin Study Reveals Life-Extending Benefits of Exercise
Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, investigated the links between long-term leisure-time physical ...
Engineers Turn Skin Cells Directly Into Neurons
Converting one type of cell to another — for example, a skin cell to a neuron — can be done through a process that requires ...
Early Human Ancestors Were Surprisingly Slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
Spinning, Twisted Light for Next-Generation Electronics
Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the ...