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Safer adhesives: Two-component microcapsules bond surfaces using only pressure at room temperature

Microcapsules containing a reactive two-component adhesive can simplify bonding processes in industry and assembly while improving occupational safety. The adhesive is initially safely enclosed in capsules, contact with exposed reactive components can be reduced, and […]

Semi-communal ‘compound houses’ in Ghana affect how people participate in political activity

Could the precise architectural form of your residence influence how much you participate in politics? A new study by MIT scholars finds this to be exactly the case—at least in Accra, Ghana, where many people […]

Growing up gets less scary with time, research finds

As young adults, many millennials feared growing up more than past generations. But they’ve come around to it as they age, research published in the journal Developmental Psychology has found.This post was originally published on […]

How fair climate action works: Findings from 88 countries with 5 billion people

A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now sheds light, for the first time, on the carbon intensity of household consumption across much of the world—and thus on the distributional impact […]

AI and physics draw a blueprint for better hydrogen storage materials

Hydrogen can become a clever way to store renewable energy and power fuel cells—but this introduces the problem of what can store this hydrogen, in turn. Metal hydrides—solids that absorb hydrogen into their crystal structures—are […]

Image: Galaxy pair NGC 3504 and NGC 3512

This striking pair of galaxies located 80 million light-years from Earth lies in the constellation Leo against a backdrop of distant galaxies. The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3504 is seen on the right, and the […]

Australia’s under-16 social media ban shows little early effect on teen use: Research

Australia’s social media ban for under-16s has had little impact on teenagers’ scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures.This post was originally published on this site

‘Fingerprints’ of black hole’s event horizon detected for first time

Scientists have detected the “fingerprints” of a black hole’s event horizon—the boundary from which nothing can escape—for the first time, according to research published Wednesday.This post was originally published on this site

‘Super-puff’ planets less dense than cotton candy discovered by international team

An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare “super-puff” planets with densities lower than candy floss. The study—led by the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Université Côte d’Azur/Observatoire […]

Web archive lets you easily search millions of government documents

At the end of every presidential term, the End of Term Web Archive preserves that administration’s web presence as a vast trove of documents and webpages. The archive began in 2008, with George W. Bush’s […]