Small home appliances equipped with electric heating coils and brushed DC motors, like hair dryers, air fryers and toasters—can emit harmful tiny ultrafine particles that deteriorate indoor air ...

Stephen Goff is the Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University in New York City. He was a postdoc in Baltimore’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge from 1978 ...

Technological advances, such as digital screens, have their obvious benefits, but these advances often outpace the time it takes for human physiology to adapt to them. As more work, learning, and ...

Abstract: Imaging spectrometers like EMIT and AVIRIS-3 have similar instrument parameters and methane and CO2 mapping capability that enables direct attribution of observed plumes to the oil and gas, ...

A new "optoexcitonic switch" already achieves state-of-the-art performance over current electronics and could serve as the basis for classical and quantum computing devices capable of operating at ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The observation by Loeb, if ...

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Artificial intelligence has become an invisible assistant, quietly shaping how we search, scroll, shop, and work. It drafts our emails, curates our feeds, and increasingly guides decisions in ...

Instruments in space are helping scientists map wastewater plumes flowing into the Pacific Ocean from the heavily polluted Tijuana River, seen here with the San Diego skyline to the north. Credit: ...

Light to fuel: clean hydrogen production. Improved understanding of the light-driven production of hydrogen holds the promise not just to make the reaction more efficient in producing a fuel, but also ...