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Humans Can Size Each Other Up With A Roar
Listeners to a person letting loose with a roar can accurately estimate the size and formidability or the human noise maker. Christopher Intagliata reports.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Carbon dioxide-to-methanol process improved by catalyst
(Penn State) Dramatic improvements have been made to the process of converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to methanol, a fuel and building block for a wide range of everyday materials, according to Penn State researchers.
Study provides promise in search for simple, early test for Alzheimer's disease
(Indiana University) Researchers at Indiana University have found early evidence that tiny snippets of genetic material called microRNA may help with early detection of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
Why Tau Trumps Pi
A growing movement argues that killing pi would make mathematics simpler, easier and even more beautiful-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Celebrate Tau Day with an Extra Slice of Pi
To understand tau, you need to understand pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes on have wrapped their heads around the math of circles. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Magnetic skyrmions: Not the only ones of their class
(Forschungszentrum Juelich) Tiny magnetic vortex structures, so-called skyrmions, have been researched intensively for some time for future energy-efficient space-saving data storage devices. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now discovered...
New simulations break down potential impact of a major quake by building location and size
(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, both US Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, is leveraging powerful supercomputers to portra...
2017 Was a Really Bad Year for Tropical Forests
Forest cover losses were the second worst on record, after only 2016, with implications for climate mitigation-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A Flu Drug May be Poised to Upend Treatment in U.S.
The medication can reduce the duration of symptoms-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientists fine-tune carbon nanotubes for flexible, fingertip-wearable terahertz imagers
(Tokyo Institute of Technology) Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed flexible terahertz imagers based on chemically 'tunable' carbon nanotube materials. The findings expand the scope of terahertz applications to inclu...