A team of chemical engineers from Université PSL, CNRS, Harvard University and chemical company Calyxia, has discovered a way to prevent or delay coalescence in some immiscible liquids.
While it's common knowledge that mountaintops are colder than the valleys below, a new University of Vermont (UVM) study is flipping the script on what we know about forests and climate.
In the vast expanses of the Arctic Ocean, scientists have made a remarkable discovery: a Greenland shark estimated to be 392 years old, dating back to 1627.
As it exports internet infrastructure, China is expanding its authoritarian model of the web, report says.
Recently in an interview with CGTN, Neeshad Shafi, an environmentalist and policy-oriented social change advocate, expressed his view that China plays an absolutely crucial role in the transfer of low-carbon infrastructure. He said, "I think Chinese
You might be getting more sleep than you think.We all know that sleep is essential for our mental and physical wellbeing. And yet, one in three adults in the U.S. report not getting enough of it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In the short term, not getting enough sleep can take a toll on our attention span, judgment, emotions and cognitive function. But over time, chronic sleep deprivation can contribute to heart disease, obesity, neurodegenerative disorders...
The carbon-14 isotope is being produced at the Qinshan nuclear power plant, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.
China says it firmly opposes foreign military alliances targeting it and stoking bloc confrontation.
As the climate changes, animals are doing what they can to adapt. Researchers from UBC Okanagan—which includes partners from Biodiversity Pathways' Wildlife Science Center, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, the University of Alberta, and Environment and Climate Change Canada—wanted to evaluate why deer densities in the boreal forest are rapidly increasing.
UNICEF had requested a sanctions exemption to bring ‘cold chain’ equipment into the country.
At least one bumblebee species can survive underwater, scientists have found after a mishap led to an experiment. A study by researchers in Canada has found when hibernating, common eastern bumblebee queens can survive being submerged in water for a week with no apparent issues. Research began after Dr Sabrina Rondeau, of the University of Guelph in Ontario, made a mistake during a previous experiment. After storing a shipment of 300 hibernating common eastern bumblebee queens in a refrigerator,...
A research team has devised a novel method to prepare carbonized polymer nanodots capable of emitting multi-color ultra-long room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) from blue to green.