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(Science China Press) Alkoxyl substitution strategy is proposed to enlarge the interlayer distances and tune the interface environments of β-Ni(OH)2. Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies combined with ex-situ ...

Learning to avoid certain tastes depends on the long term reduction in activity the connections between threat and taste sensors in the brain.

The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons such as the proton and the neutron, the building blocks of atoms. According to the quark model, hadrons can be formed by ...

(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) The latest animation technology has revealed the molecular detail of how our bodies are protected from cancer by a key 'tumour suppressor' protein called p53.

(Institute for Basic Science) IBS researchers in South Korea probe the cage formation of the glass at surgical precision and elucidate the onset of glass transition.

Archaeologists located the buried Viking ship and ritual center in Norway with ground-penetrating radar.

Cloth face masks offer two-way protection, benefitting both the wearer and those around them.

Depression may be a new biomarker for the onset of specific bowel conditions, researchers report. The study found those with digestive disorders such as IBS, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis were more likely to be...

Sleep deprivation reduces the brain's ability to unlearn fear-related memories, a new study reports.

Like restless children posing for a family portrait, electrons won't hold still long enough to stay in any kind of fixed arrangement.

Now, researchers have developed a way to stack two-dimensional semiconductors and trap electrons in a repeating pattern that forms a specific and long-hypothesized crystal.

Severe obstructive sleep apnea is linked to an increase of the amyloid beta protein, resulting in a greater risk of sufferers developing dementia.

Rivers of warm air transported across the atmosphere have been found to play a major role in the appearance of vast areas of open water in Antarctic sea ice

A team of physicists from the University of Konstanz and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany have achieved attosecond time resolution in a transmission electron microscope by combining it with a continuou...

Researchers found and measured a group of rare Bigfin Squids congregating off the Australia coast for the first time ever.

The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state physics. Different classes of unconventional superconductors share that superconductivity emerges ...

A Japanese research team elucidated the microscopic mechanism in which amorphous silica becomes negatively charged as a vibrational energy harvester, which is anticipated to achieve self-power generation without charging...

To researchers in the field, they are known as 'bad metals,' but they are not really so bad. As a matter of fact, they are the best superconductors because they are able to conduct current with the highest efficiency and...

This shot of a great white heron and grey heron in their respective treetop nests in Russia was taken by Dmitrii Viliunov using a drone. It won first prize in the wildlife category for the 2020 Drone Photo Awards

The strange, beautiful shapes that sand dunes form are a mystery. Now researchers are conducting huge desert experiments and using dune racetracks to figure it out

I got rid of my car months ago in an effort to be kinder to the environment, but it has been much harder than I expected and I'm reluctantly driving again, writes Graham Lawton

Hugs, handshakes and air kisses serve the same crucial purposes as animal greetings like sniffing, eye poking and buttock grabbing