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Electrode's 'hot edges' convert carbon dioxide gas into fuels and chemicals

The research team, from the University of Bath, Fudan University, Shanghai, and the Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, hopes the catalyst design will eventually allow the use of renewable electricity to convert CO2 into fuels without creating additional atmospheric carbon -- essentially acting like an electrochemical 'leaf'

Wearable cooling and heating patch could serve as personal thermostat and save energy

The work is published May 17 in the journal Science Advances.

Shrinking moon may be generating moonquakes

"Our analysis gives the first evidence that these faults are still active and likely producing moonquakes today as the Moon continues to gradually cool and shrink," said Thomas Watters, senior scientist in the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. "Some

Scientists propose rethinking 'endangered species' definition to save slow-breeding giants

"Critical thresholds in so-called vital rates -- such as mortality and fertility rates among males and females of various ages -- can signal an approaching population collapse long before numbers drop below a point of no return," says lead author Dr. Shermin de Silva, President Founder of Asian elephant conservation

Iceland volcano eruption in 1783-84 did not spawn extreme heat wave: Massive Laki volcano eruption led to unusually cold winter in Europe

The study, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, will help improve predictions of how the climate will respond to future high-latitude volcanic eruptions..

Earliest evidence of the cooking and eating of starch

The new research by an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, provides archaeological evidence that has previously been lacking to support the hypothesis that the duplication of the starch digestion genes is an adaptive response to an increased starch diet. "This is very exciting. The

Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, study finds: Small-scale trial is the first randomized, controlled research of its kind

This small-scale study of 20 adult volunteers, conducted by researchers at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), is the first randomized controlled trial examining the effects of ultra-processed foods as defined by the NOVA classification system. This system considers foods "ultra-processed" if they have

Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars

Now, researchers may have a better understanding how such planets formed.

An electric tongue can handle more spicy foods than you can

In a new paper in the Journal of Food Science, recent WSU graduate student Courtney Schlossareck and her advisor, Carolyn Ross, found that the e-tongue is very accurate at telling the difference of spiciness between samples of the same food. Thousands of new spicy products hit supermarket shelves every year.

Brazil's Zika Babies Are Growing Up

“When the Zika epidemic first happened there was an explosion in the media.

US: Reject Proposal to Force Pain Patients Off Opioid Medication

Expand Maria Higginbotham, 57, holding screws and bolts removed from her back in a recent surgery above x-rays of her body. Higginbotham, a chronic pain patient diagnosed with degenerative disc disorder and a number of other painful conditions, has had twelve operations to prevent the collapse of her spine. © 2018

A genomic tour-de-force reveals the last 5,000 years of horse history

The findings identify two new horse lineages that are now extinct and suggest that familiar traits such as speed were only selected for more recently in their history

Ayahuasca fixings found in 1,000-year-old bundle in the Andes: New evidence that the mind-blowing brew goes back millennia

The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence of ritualistic psychotropic plant use going back millennia, said Miller, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand who conducted the research during her doctoral studies at UC Berkeley.

Plastic gets a do-over: Breakthrough discovery recycles plastic from the inside out: Scientists have made a next-generation plastic that can be recycled again and again into new materials of any color, shape, or form

Now a team of researchers at the U.S.

Stickier than expected: Hydrogen binds to graphene in 10 femtoseconds: Bound for only ten quadrillionths of a second

The international research team bombarded graphene with hydrogen atoms.