source: Phys.org In recent years, several states have created or helped to fund specialized banks that lend money to homeowners and businesses for energy-saving and climate projects. Now, states have billions more reasons to establish such institutions, known as green banks. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org A durable copper-based coating developed by Dartmouth College researchers can be precisely integrated into fabric to create responsive and reusable materials such as protective equipment, environmental sensors, and smart filters, according to a recent study. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Working with one of the world’s preeminent thermoelectric materials researchers, a team of researchers in the Clemson Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) has developed a new, fool-proof method to evaluate thermoelectric materials. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Sulfur, an essential nutrient for plants, was as free as air back in the 1980s, drifting down onto farmers’ fields from the polluted sky. The nutrient also caused acid rain, however, and it triggered chemistry that meant more mercury in fish. Regulations led to less sulfur in the air, but in the Midwest, where sulfur-hungry corn and soybean fields were proliferating, crops still needed the nutrient. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org A 30-foot juvenile humpback whale washed up on the beach in Atlantic City on Saturday morning, the second time in 15 days a young whale has been swept ashore in the casino town. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org For the millions of people living with diabetes, insulin is a life-saving drug. Unlike many other medicines, though, insulin cannot be easily delivered by swallowing a pill—it needs to be injected under the skin with a syringe or pump. Researchers have been making steps toward an insulin pill, and now, a team reports in ACS Nano that they’ve delivered insulin to the colons of rats using an orally administered tablet powered by chemical “micromotors.

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source: Phys.org Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light years away. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org As seasoned gardeners know, broccoli heads don’t develop properly and can resemble cauliflower when grown in higher temperatures. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and superabsorbent polymers. The new catalyst technology is also highly efficient, which means lower costs for manufacturing renewable chemicals. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org In today’s digital age, computational tasks have become increasingly complex. This, in turn, has led to an exponential growth in the power consumed by digital computers. Thus, it is necessary to develop hardware resources that can perform large-scale computing in a fast and energy-efficient way. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org The last few years have been a time of increased antisemitism in Europe. In a 2018 study of 16,395 people, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) found that 85% of participants considered antisemitism to be a “very big” or “fairly big” problem in their country. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org If you lift your eyes to the sky Friday night, you can catch the first full moon of 2023—the wolf moon. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Welcome to this special report on the food industry, the fourth installment in our series on where the global economy is heading in 2023. It follows recent articles on inflation, energy and the cost of living. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Police investigating the murders of four University of Idaho students have said they used DNA to link evidence found at the crime scene to their suspect, 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Compared to the rest of the world, income inequality is not particularly high in Australia, nor is it getting much worse—until you include housing. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org The “Kimchi premium” is a term used to refer to the gap between the price of bitcoins in South Korean versus Western exchanges. This difference, which was first observed in 2016, is caused due to the high demand for a limited supply of bitcoins. The Kimchi premium is not constant, but when it appears, bitcoins can be as much as 50% more expensive in South Korea. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org The 80th Golden Globe Awards this week kicks off Hollywood’s annual awards season, which culminates with the Academy Awards in March. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6355 is a galactic globular cluster that resides in our Milky Way galaxy’s inner regions. It is less than 50,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org While using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the masers around oddball star MWC 349A scientists discovered something unexpected: a previously unseen jet of material launching from the star’s gas disk at impossibly high speeds. What’s more, they believe the jet is caused by strong magnetic forces surrounding the star. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Large fashion brands sourcing clothes from Bangladesh for the U.K. market are reportedly paying below the cost of production, according to a major new survey of 1,000 Bangladeshi manufacturers published today. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. Scientists recently compared images of hundreds of galaxies taken by JWST for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey with corresponding images previously taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and presented the results at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

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source: Phys.org The Orion space capsule from Artemis I has come full circle, having launched from Kennedy Space Center, traveled 1.4 million miles in space and around the moon, splashed back down to Earth in the Pacific Ocean, and now journeyed 2,500 miles over land for its return to Florida. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Ceramic fuel cells, also known as solid oxide fuel cells, are promising green electrochemical devices offering high energy efficiency, low emissions and fuel flexibility. Read Full Article Here

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source: Phys.org Researchers from the University of St Andrews have found that chimpanzees in two neighboring communities in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, use leaf gestures in different dialects to communicate with members of their group. Read Full Article Here

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