Ruth Seeley

By observing electrons that have been accelerated to extremely high energies, scientists are able to unlock clues about the particles that make up our universe. Accelerating electrons to extremely high energies is problematic though, since…

By 2016, 50% of our seafood was the product of aquaculture. With a sea cage holding up to 200,000 farmed salmon, aquaculture is big business. If the cage sustains damage, such as a hole in the nets, the fish could swim out through the…

The decline of standard battery performance at low temperatures and the environmental impact of mining the metals to create them is driving the search for sustainable energy storage. Recently, researchers at Uppsala University have…

Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given researchers clues about how they might find life on Mars. These bacteria were discovered living in tiny cracks inside volcanic rocks after researchers…

Small magnetic fields from the electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances are present all around us. Now, Penn State scientists have developed a new mechanism capable of harvesting this wasted magnetic field energy and…

Using video recorded on an ordinary smartphone, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created an accurate, realistic, and uncreepy 3D reconstruction of someone's face. Using a smartphone to shoot a continuous video of the front and…

Rice University engineers have been studying how electrons act when confronted with the Russian doll-like structure of multiwalled tubes. The Rice lab of materials theorist Boris Yakobson has now calculated the impact of curvature of…

Until now, it has been only technically possible to implement encryption mechanisms with entangled photons in the near-infrared range of 700 to 1550 nanometers. However, these shorter wavelengths have disadvantages, especially in…

With lithium-ion batteries powering almost all remote devices, their manufacturers have had to develop safety measures to limit peak voltage. These include devices that monitor charge-state and current flow, record the latest, full-charge…

Because of the need to train users how to operate, manually adjust for exposure time and get the camera recalibrated if it’s accidentally disturbed, 3D cameras are not easy to use. They should be though, claims a Purdue University…

By augmenting the auxiliary layers of the devices responsible for electron transport rather than working with the main active layer, an international group of scientists has proposed a method that allows for significantly increasing the…

Anyone who’s been following the coronavirus pandemic from the time before it was officially declared a pandemic has become familiar with a variety of countermeasures public health officials are using to try to prevent their healthcare…

Analysis of nearly 30 years of species reintroduction studies using off-the-shelf machine learning, natural language processing and sentiment analysis will help us maximize our conservation dollars and could lead to greater success in…

As science fiction and infectious disease specialists have been predicting for decades, the coronavirus pandemic has caught us with our pants down (no toilet-paper hoarding double-entendres intended). Social isolation on its own is not…

Schools and daycares are shut down, almost everyone is working from home on next to no notice, and parents are suddenly having to home school their children. During the coronavirus pandemic, students need positivity and access to…