As green and sustainable development relies on renewable energy, electrocatalysis has become a key technology. Advanced theoretical study is an important means to fundamentally understanding electrocatalytic reactions. Highly efficient methods of carbon-neutralization (eCO2RR), reverse artificial nitrogen cycle (RANC), and oxygen chemistry (OER and ORR) can all be driven by electrocatalysis.

Portal origin URL: Astronomers See Stellar Self-Control in ActionPortal origin nid: 484243Published: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new study shows how some stars can demonstrate “self-control” when forming in groups.Portal image: Composite image of RCW...

For years, the 150-year-old Colorado State Fair has held its fine art competition under little media glare. But when it announced the 2022 winners in August, this little-known local event immediately sparked controversy around the globe. Judges had picked synthetic media artist Jason Allen’s artificial intelligence-generated work “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” as the winner in the digital...

The animal kingdom exhibits a plethora of unique and surprising phenomena or abilities that include, for some animals, the ability to regenerate body parts irrespective of age. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered that the mechanisms behind this peculiar ability in newts have a few surprises of their own.

Despite fungi being some of the most important organisms in the world, their species diversity remains poorly understood. Taxonomy is the basis for biodiversity studies. Now, not only have researchers from Japan investigated a previously undescribed species of fungi, they have also reassigned another species to a different genus and rediscovered a further species in Japan.

Adolescents from lower-income backgrounds are more likely to report addictive use of social media, according to an international team of researchers including Professor Frank Elgar from McGill University.

By studying an exotic atom called muonium, researchers are hoping misbehaving muons will spill the beans on the Standard Model of particle physics. To make muonium, they use the most intense continuous beam of low energy muons in the world at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. The research is published in Nature Communications.

According to new research published in the Nature Climate Change journal, climate skepticism is growing four times as fast as pro-climate content on Twitter.

Unlike in humans, when computer "brains" evolve, they get smaller and smaller. This is because the components that perform calculations and consolidate stored information work more efficiently when there are more of them tightly packed on a chip.

Clams and other invertebrates often live in habitats with dense bacterial populations, despite lacking adaptive, lymphocyte-based immune systems. How clams resist bacterial pathogens in the environment is unclear.

Researchers in the lab of Harvard Medical School structural biologist Hao Wu have deciphered the step-by-step assembly of a molecular complex that's crucial for fighting off infections but can also give rise to myriad diseases involving inflammation, from gout to Alzheimer's to the cytokine storms of severe COVID-19.

Using the Econometric Society and other international societies as the basis for their research, the group of researchers comprising Nagore Iriberri, David Card, Stefano DellaVigna and Patricia Funk explored the gender impact when recognizing excellence in contributions by their colleagues and peers. In other words, their study constituted a recognition process in which scientists in a field of...

A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that have never before been seen on Earth in a 15 ton meteorite found in Somalia—the ninth largest meteorite ever found.

With atomic precision, scientists built a testbed to manipulate electrons in entirely new ways with potential applications in quantum computing.

Using the 1-m Ritchey–Chrétien–Coudé telescope of the Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), Hungarian astronomers have observed a variable star known as GD 99. Results of the study, published November 21 on the arXiv pre-print server, shed more light on the properties of this variable.

Researchers have developed a new tool to measure Twitter users' exposure to misinformation from political elites.

Despite advances in gender equality, women still earn less than men in all advanced, industrialized societies. Who—or what—is to blame? A new 15-country study led by Andrew Penner at the University of California, Irvine, divides fault evenly between inequitable within-job salary structures and the decisions that route men and women into differently compensated roles.

Platinum plays a main role in fuel cell catalysts but restricts the commercialization of fuel cells due to its high cost. Given this limitation, scientists developed intermetallic compounds (IMCs) as a promising low-Pt electrocatalyst.

In a study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition., a research team, led by Prof. Gao Minrui and Prof. Yang Qing from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), developed a new catalyst with excellent CO-tolerance and a low cost, realizing the improved performance of fuel cells.

A defense mechanism that human cells possess against viruses such as monkeypox, herpes simplex and human papillomavirus—all double-stranded DNA viruses—relies on proteins that patrol the cell, acting as sensors of the virus's DNA. This type of cellular defense was discovered only a decade ago and is still little studied. When the sensor proteins detect viral DNA they bind to it and the alarm...

Peshkova/iStock The University of Michigan’s biomedical Ph.D. program was a lonely outlier in 2017 when it announced it would stop asking applicants to submit scores for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test . At the time, the standardized exam was a nearly universal requirement for Ph.D. programs at U.S. universities. But...

Academic workers across the University of California (UC) system—including at UC Los Angeles, shown here—have been on strike since 14 November. Gary Coronado/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images After 2 weeks of strikes and negotiating involving thousands of early career researchers across the University of...