Microplastics are turning up in unusual places increasingly often as they filter into nearly every facet of life on Earth. They’ve been discovered in drinking water, food, air and even in blood. Now, scientists have found that these incredibly small bits of plastic might even be able to change the weather.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope detected quartz crystals made of silica, a common Earth mineral, in the atmosphere of a hot exoplanet.
A trio of US-based researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing tiny "quantum dots" used to illuminate TVs and lamps, hours after a prematurely sent statement revealed their names.The chemistry award is the third Nobel of the season after the medicine prize and the physics prizes were announced earlier in the week.
Three scientists, including a professor at Cambridge’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots.