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Spreading crushed rocks on fields can absorb CO2 from the air – now chemists have devised a way to turbocharge this process by creating more reactive minerals

So finds a new study that looked at three historical North American quakes

Despite official promises of a vaccine surge and calls for most of those infected to just ride it out, sudden policy changes have left many people nervous.

MIT physicists report the discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material billionths of a meter thick. The material, rhombohedral pentalayer graphene, joins a family of materials with exotic properties that may have other "relatives."

The arrival of American users on RedNote has brought instant online connection between Americans and Chinese even as academic and other exchanges have dampened.

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Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) featured with high volatility and high adsorption is a common toxic and hazardous gas. Traces of HCN are also found in human exhaled breath. Unusual high HCN concentration in the breath of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) infection. Therefore, the development of a highly sensitive online HCN measurement in exhaled breath can enable rapid screening…

MIT physicists and colleagues created a five-lane superhighway for electrons that could allow ultra-efficient electronics and more.

In the 1800s, some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history struck North America's continental interior. Almost two centuries later, the central and eastern United States may still be experiencing aftershocks from those events, a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth finds.

Mainland China's swift rollback of many Covid-related restrictions has been unexpectedly sudden, revealing a new set of economic challenges.

Official case numbers have been falling, but many in Beijing are still in near-panic mode despite government efforts to clarify the new policy.

Coastal aquaculture has grown rapidly over the past few decades, and although ocean-based food supplies have increased, concerns about the environmental impacts of aquaculture have as well. For example, research has found that shrimp aquaculture ponds pollute surface waters by releasing nutrient-rich waste into the ocean. Although researchers know that salt water from shrimp farms can seep into groundwater, the…

MIT physicists have observed fractional quantum Hall effect in simple pentalayer graphene. The finding could make it easier to develop more robust quantum computers.

A 21-year-old Chinese college student broke a Guinness World Record when he used only four fingers to do 22 pushups in one minute -- and clapped his hands in between each pushup.

Even people who tend to think conventionally, such as accountants or insurance adjusters, can be creative, a recent study suggests, if they can look at emotional situations in a different light.

High school junior Jessica Wan received the top $50,000 prize, with a score of 17 out of 20, out of 240 girls in the U.S. and Canada competing in the Math Prize for Girls annual contest at MIT.

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) created a system called MuscleRehab for visualizing muscle engagement and motion data during unsupervised physical rehabilitation.

A research group led by Prof. Wu Kaifeng and Zhu Jingyi from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently reported the observation of an excitonic Bloch-Siegert shift in CsPbI3 perovskite quantum dots (QDs), which advances current fundamental understanding for coherent light-matter interaction in low-dimensional solid-state materials.

An engineered CRISPR-based method that finds RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, promises to make testing for that and other diseases fast and easy.

A research group led by Prof. Wang Xianlong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully synthesized high-energy-density materials cubic gauche nitrogen (cg-N) at atmospheric pressure by treating potassium azide (KN3) using the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique (PECVD).