Unleashing Exotic States of Matter: RIKEN Proves Edges Unnecessary
Contrary to expectation, experiments show that edges are not needed to realize an unusual quantum effect. RIKEN physicists have created an exotic quantum state in…
Contrary to expectation, experiments show that edges are not needed to realize an unusual quantum effect. RIKEN physicists have created an exotic quantum state in…
Mining, Land Grabs, and More: When Decarbonization Conflicts With Human Rights The shift to renewable energy is exacerbating social injustice issues, particularly affecting indigenous communities…
How a methanogenic microbe reassembles a metabolic pathway piece by piece to transform Sulfate into a cellular building block. Researchers have discovered that the methanogen…
A Sign in Space imagines how Earth might respond to a signal from aliens and invites the public to help decode an ET message. What…
KAUST researchers are working to improve the agronomic traits of pigmented rice varieties using genomic studies and CRISPR technology. Their focus is on improving nutrient-rich…
A new paper lays out scientific methods for measuring and calculating Q in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch. Zap Energy has outlined its unique approach to…
Tiny circles of DNA harbor cancer-associated oncogenes and immunomodulatory genes promoting cancer development. They arise during the transformation from pre-cancer to cancer, say Stanford Medicine-led…
The linking of two distant qubits will help to develop larger, more complex quantum computers based on silicon quantum dots. In a demonstration that promises…
The BlackGEM array, a system of three new telescopes located at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory, has begun operations to detect gravitational…
Researchers have just made the unexpected discovery of a novel organization of muscle fibers in Parophidion vassali, a fish that lives in the Mediterranean Sea…
A new study in the journal Hypertension found that the type of estrogen-based menopausal hormone therapy for women had varying impacts on developing high blood…
Would you rather run into a brick wall or into a mattress? The majority of people would find this decision straightforward. The hardness of a…
The preservation of endangered plant species is critical to the survival of cultural legacy. Historically, the color purple has been linked with nobility globally, and…
The Hubble Space Telescope has released its final image in a series of jellyfish galaxies, showcasing JO206 in the Aquarius constellation. Named for their resemblance…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068. Part of a project to record star formation…
The first demonstration of a functional microchip integrating atomically thin two-dimensional materials with exotic properties heralds a new era of microelectronics. The world’s first fully…
NASA’s “Message in a Bottle” campaign invites the public to add their names to a microchip that will accompany a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate…
Researchers have utilized microgravity experiments to study discrete burning of iron powder, leading to carbon-free, endlessly recyclable energy storage. This has promising applications on Earth…