Researchers surprised by toxicity levels of standard plastic products

Researchers surprised by toxicity levels of standard plastic products

Images of recently hatched cod larvae show they developed spinal deformities after exposure to chemicals leached from plastic. Image source: SINTEF The plastics around us contain a range of chemical …

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FAST detects three new pulsars in old globular clusters

FAST detects three new pulsars in old globular clusters

Pulsar position and X-ray source position in Messier 15. Image Source: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.06067 Astronomers used China’s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to discover three new pulsars in …

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Why paint doesn’t dry slower in humid environments

Why paint doesn’t dry slower in humid environments

Brightfield image of the polarizing layer at the terminal water-air interface (t103minutes) typical experiment (RH=50%). Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.248102 A team of physicists from the University of …

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Aerogels could be key to future terahertz technology

Aerogels could be key to future terahertz technology

Aerogels can be highly hydrophobic through simple chemical modifications.Photo credit: Thor Barkhed High-frequency terahertz waves have great potential in many applications, including next-generation medical imaging and communications.Researchers from Sweden’s Limping …

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Researchers show how to actively change magnetism through pressure

Researchers show how to actively change magnetism through pressure

In situ strain tuning of frustrated magnetism in Y3copper9(oh)19chlorine8. (a)(c) For NMR experiments under uniaxial strain, a single crystal is bonded between two arms of a piezoelectric strain unit (a), …

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Supercomputer delivers new Lyman Forest simulation suite to illustrate large-scale structure of universe

Supercomputer delivers new Lyman Forest simulation suite to illustrate large-scale structure of universe

TACC’s Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of fluid dynamics simulations of large structures in the universe to date. Example Lyman forest spectrum of quasar light and …

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NASA to provide science coverage as Dragon departs space station – NASA

NASA to provide science coverage as Dragon departs space station - NASA

Editor’s Note: This bulletin was updated on December 20, 2023, to reflect that NASA and SpaceX are currently aiming to undocking no earlier than 5:05 PM ET on Thursday, December …

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How does a quark-gluon-plasma fireball explode into hadrons?

How does a quark-gluon-plasma fireball explode into hadrons?

A cartoon of free-flowing hadrons emerging from a quark-gluon plasma. Photo credit: Maneesha Sushama Pradeep Quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is an exciting state of matter created by scientists colliding two heavy …

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