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Your Kitchen Sponge Teems With Bacteria – Should You Use a Brush Instead?
Lingchong You's 2022 study is cited as one of the main reasons a kitchen sponge is so good at harboring a wide diversity and large density of bacteria.
Why You Should Stop Using Scented Candles—For Good
Mike Bergin says, “I think it would be almost impossible to not make some sort of indoor pollution with any type of candle.”
Amazing Women in Science and Math
"The honors and scientific citations Ingrid Daubechies would make a CVS receipt look small."
New Method Makes High-Entropy Oxides in a Flash
Stefano Curtarolo provides insight on a proposed method to quickly and cheaply synthesize an emerging class of super hard materials
What DeepSeek’s Success Says About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent
Specially Designed Peptides Can Treat Complex Diseases
Pranam Chatterjee uses generative AI to create thousands of new potential therapeutic peptides and match them to "undruggable" biomolecular targets
What DeepSeek’s Success Says About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent
Yiran Chen comments on the perceived gap in rising researchers in AI between China and the United States
Ask the Expert: Online Engineering Management Degrees
Christy Bozic explains that engineering management is about bridging the gap between technology and business.
US Scientists Use Neutrons to Develop Safer, Faster-Charging Solid-State Batteries
Olivier Delaire used the power of neutron scattering and large-scale computer simulations to figure out what's going on inside these materials.
How Often Should You Clean Your Yoga Mat? 6 Factors to Consider
Claudia Gunsch provides her expertise on balancing healthy microbiomes for the complicated case of your personal yoga mat
New Materials With Interlocking Parts Can Flow Like Liquid or Contract Like Muscles
Matthew Becker helps create polymers made like miniature chainmail armor that have strange—and useful—properties