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Using X-Rays, it is possible to analyze the atomic structure of solid materials swiftly, easily, and with extreme precision. This, however, necessitates the existence of crystals of the relevant substances.

Scientists discovered that glacier movement in Greenland is more complicated than it sounds, with deformation in warmer ice comprising small amounts of water accounting for motion earlier thought to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath.

At Shenzhen University, fiber sensing scientists have built a small fiber optical nanomechanical probe (FONP) for quantifying in vivo biomechanical properties of tissue and also single cells.

Considerable progress for drug discovery, industrial processes, and optoelectronics could be yielded by engineering novel molecules and materials with specific properties.

When volcanoes erupt, they attract more attention. However, new research guided by the University of Washington reveals that during their quiet phases, volcanoes leak a surprisingly large amount of their atmosphere- and climate-changing gases.

A team at the University of Michigan has now reduced the thickness of ferroelectric semiconductors to only 5 nm, or around 50 atoms, making them suitable for bridging current computers with future devices.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition that causes damage to cells in the brain and spinal cord that is essential for movement.

According to a UC Riverside investigation, nitrogen released by gas-powered machines causes dry soil to release carbon into the atmosphere, where it can cause climate change.

According to a modeling study published in The Lancet and spearheaded by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by “la Caixa” Foundation, urban heat islands cause more than 4% of deaths in cities during the summer months, and one-third of these deaths could be avoided by reaching a tree cover of 30%.

Research headed by the Spanish National Research Council’s (CSIC) Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA) and the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA CSIC-UIB) found that injecting billions of tons of atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) underground has a low risk of leakage back to the surface.