Why Do You Keep Your House So Cold? Research Suggests Your Childhood Temperature May Predict Your Adult Child’s Thermostat Settings

Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Childhood temperatures and community connectedness can help predict how U.S. residents set their thermostats, offering new ways to promote energy conservation and combat climate change, according to a study published July 3 in the journal PLOS Climate by Dritjon Gruda of the National University of Ireland Maynooth and Paul Hanges of … Read more

A new weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance: temperature

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! Colonies of the bacterium E. coli growing on an agar plate with ciprofloxacin: these resistant colonies come from mutants. On the left the resistant mutants from a population grown at 37 °C (normal body temperature), on the right the resistant mutants from … Read more

First topological quantum simulator device with a strong light-matter interaction regime operating at room temperature

Representation of the photonic topological insulator developed in the study. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a device no wider than a human hair that will help physicists probe the fundamental nature of matter and light. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Nanotechnologycould also support the development of more … Read more

First topological quantum simulator device with a strong light-matter interaction regime operating at room temperature

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Representation of the photonic topological insulator developed in the study. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute × close to Representation of the photonic topological insulator developed in the study. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a device … Read more

Potentially habitable ‘exo-Venus’ with Earth-like temperature discovered

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Gliese 12 b, which orbits a cool, red dwarf star just 40 light-years away, promises to tell astronomers more about how planets close to their stars retain or lose their atmospheres. In this artist’s concept, Gliese 12 b is depicted … Read more

Scientists discover that a single atomic defect in 2D material can retain quantum information at room temperature

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Scaling of spin coherence under dynamic decoupling. aDynamic disconnection measurements with Nπ refocusing pulses, with each measurement suitable for exp[−(t/TDD)α]. bSpin coherence time TDD (purple triangles) as a function of the number of refocusing pulses Nπ. Credit: Natural materials (2024). … Read more