Tag: Science

Geothermal energy—piping the Earth’s inner heat to the surface to warm buildings, water, and other things that need it—has been limited by the ability to reach down to get it. 

At the University of Chicago, researchers have used the quirks of quantum physics to store and retrieve vast amounts of data in a tiny crystal barely a tenth of an inch in size (about 0.10 of a millimeter).

Psychologists at Canada’s Simon Fraser University reviewed more than 2,500 published scientific papers detailing links between social media use and mental disturbances.

Bioscientists at the Munich campus of Germany’s Helmholtz Association research network have identified a previously unknown brain cell that could play a key role in healing brain damage.

The honey bees that pollinate our crops have been in trouble for more than 20 years due to a range of ills ranging from parasites to pesticides. 

Over the rest of this decade, between 5,000 and 9,000 fiberglass blades from worn-out wind turbines will be stacking up in the U.S. alone, a number that could reach 20,000 a year by 2040, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have found a particular type of cell in small-cell lung cancers that makes the energy that enables the cancer to live and grow.