Fishing nets, carpet, clothing break down without leaving harmful byproducts behind
Many people are familiar with the haunting images of wildlife — including sea turtles, dolphins and seals — tangled in abandoned fishing nets.
The main issue behind Nylon-6, the …
Former goldmine provides a portal to microbial life deep into the Earth’s crust
If you added up all the microbes living deep below Earth’s surface, the amount of biomass would outweigh all life within our oceans.
But because this abundant …
JWST unexpectedly reveals nickel and oxygen, which are typically difficult to observe
Similar to human teenagers, teenage galaxies are awkward, experience growth spurts and enjoy heavy metal — nickel, that is.
A Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists has just analyzed …
Researchers improve cell efficiency using a combination of molecules to address different issues
Northwestern University researchers have raised the standards again for perovskite solar cells with a new development that helped the emerging technology hit new records for efficiency.
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Similar to the tale of the boiling frog, flies more likely to react to rapid heating
We’ve all heard it: Put a frog in boiling water, and it will jump out. But put the same frog in lukewarm water and …
Seismologist: ‘The activity is formidable, exciting and scary’
As seismic activity intensifies ahead of an impending eruption of a fissure near Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano, the island’s Reykjanes Peninsula is experiencing hundreds of earthquakes per day.
Now, listeners can follow along …
As the first Argentinian to receive the honor, Northwestern senior will study mathematical physics at Oxford
Northwestern University student Nia Robles Del Pino has been named a 2024 Global Rhodes Scholar — one of only two students selected worldwide among …
Aaron Naber of the department of mathematics at Northwestern University has been awarded the 2023 Fermat Prize for his groundbreaking work on Ricci limit spaces, in particular rectifiability, isometry group and co-dimension 4 conjecture. Naber is the Kenneth F. Burgess …
The new findings are ubiquitous, even among Earth’s northernmost glaciers
Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a Northwestern University and University of Copenhagen study has found.
To piece together the magnitude …
New study constructs most extensive map yet of the cave system’s microbiome
With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, Northwestern University researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths …