Plastic bottles A new technique has been developed by researchers that changes polyethylene (PE), the most widely generated plastic, into polypropylene (PP), the second most produced plastics.Upcycling plastic efficiently to remove wasteThe purpose of this process is to decrease greenhouse emissions. "The world needs more and better options for extracting the power and molecular value...
Production mechanisms. The top panel shows the quark line diagrams at the electroweak vertex, and the bottom panels show the corresponding production diagram for Pc states. (a) Color-enhanced, (b) color-suppressed, and (c) non-factorizable color-suppressed mechanisms. Credit: T. J. Burns et al, Physical Review D (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.054029University of Pittsburgh and Swansea University theorists have demonstrated that...
Recently, we ran a piece including the views of well-known science writer John Horgan who talked about a bizarre element of quantum physics confirmed by recent experiments-- that it appears as if there´s no knowledge apart from observers' minds.Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is decidedly not happy with that approach:" Physicists have revealed that objective...
Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, centre, Eva Olsson, left and Thors Hans Hansson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics announce the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, from left to right on the screen, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, during a press...
An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this image of the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009. Credits: NASANASA and SpaceX authorized an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22nd, to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program concept to boost the agency's Hubble Space Telescope into a greater orbit...
The James Webb image of SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScIJames Webb first Full-color images help astronomers make a new discovery.James Webb's discovery is yet to give us not just a new insight but also a treasure trove of data held by every image it has released.The first full-color James Webb image,...
Credit: UnsplashA group of scientists from Helmholtz Munich has identified a new use for vitamin K, typically recognized for its part in blood clotting. In its fully reduced configuration, the researchers discovered that vitamin K operates as an anti-oxidant by efficiently inhibiting ferroptotic cell death. Ferroptosis is a natural kind of cell death in...
An in-depth conversation with Jess Toolson, founder, and CEO of Mixhers, concerning how being a parent has shaped her skill sets.One article celebrating an accomplished woman entrepreneur and the fact that its writer is one man might sound like a disjointed arrangement, yet rest assured: I had quite a bit of assistance writing it.Because...
Droplets of silicon, used to illustrate movements similar to those of quantum particles. Aleks LabudaA solid is made of particles that are, more or less, locked in an ordered framework. On the other hand, a fluid is made of particles that can flow freely around and past each other. However, imagine atoms that stay...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainWhat makes people brain distinct from that of all other animals-- including also our closest primate relatives? In an analysis of cell kinds in the prefrontal cortex of 4 primate species, Yale researchers identified species-specific-- particularly human-specific-- features, they report on Aug. 25th in the journal Science.And they discovered that what...
