29 October, 2018

Lithium metal charges faster and holds ten times more energy than lithium-ion. Study shows that thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites growing from lithium metal anodes in batteries. Over time, these tentacle-like dendrites can pierce the battery’s electrolyte core and causes it to fail.


Research has found chimpanzees react faster to cooperate than make selfish choices. In both reward and punishment contexts, the chimpanzees made prosocial choices more rapidly than those benefiting themselves.


Scientists have found that crude oil exposure early in fish development can lead to long-term consequences, including mortality months after fish are removed to uncontaminated water and brain changes that are apparent for nearly a year after exposure.


A new technique of zapping chemicals with electrons can map the structure of molecules in minutes or hours instead of years


A vaccine may one day be able to replace oral blood thinners to reduce the risk of secondary strokes. Japanese researchers successfully tested an experimental vaccine in mice and found that it provided protection against blood clots for more than two months without increasing the risk of bleeding.


Men tend to be most attracted to women with a relatively low waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and a low BMI. New research casts doubt on the claim that such women are found attractive because they are healthy and fertile. Instead, both low WHRs and low BMIs were linked to reduced fertility.


A kill code is embedded in every cell in the body whose function may be to cause the self-destruction of cells that become cancerous. As soon as the cell's inner bodyguards sense it is mutating into cancer, they punch in the kill code to extinguish the mutating cell.