Researchers Evolve Bacteria That Consume CO2 for Energy
Over the course of several months, researchers in Israel created Escherichia coli strains that consume CO2 for energy instead of organic compounds. This achievement in…
Over the course of several months, researchers in Israel created Escherichia coli strains that consume CO2 for energy instead of organic compounds. This achievement in…
Scientists have removed an important obstacle to the practical use of nanooptical traps. Nanooptical traps are a promising building block for quantum technologies. Austrian and…
If you took a careful look at the feathers on a chicken, you’d find many different forms within the same bird—even within a single feather….
Skoltech researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS and the Ural Federal University have shown that high-capacity…
Examining how banded iron formations (BIFs) became depleted in organic matter. A new study supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology program is providing details…
New archeological analysis challenges long-standing hypotheses about ostrich eggshell beads and the spread of pastoralism in Africa. Ostrich eggshell beads are some of the oldest…
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now “active,” a group of leading scientists have warned. This threatens the…
Computer simulations yield a much more accurate picture of these states of matter. Strange metals make interesting bedfellows for a phenomenon known as high-temperature superconductivity,…
Researchers from King’s College London and China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan, have found omega-3 fish oil supplements improve attention among children with Attention Deficit…
A new miniature NMR implant measures neuronal activity. A team of neuroscientists and electrical engineers from Germany and Switzerland developed a highly sensitive implant that…
Animal embryos evolved before animals. Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, before diversifying into 30 or 40 distinct anatomical designs. When and how animal ancestors made…
Scientists Now Know What DNA’s Chaperone Looks Like Researchers have discovered the structure of the FACT protein—a mysterious protein central to the functioning of DNA….
One black hole is influencing the rate of star formation in multiple galaxies and across vast distances. This is a rare example of “positive feedback”…
Armored with plastic ‘hair’ and silica, new perovskite nanocrystals show more durability. Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving a wide variety of optoelectronic devices –…
First-of-a-kind electro-optical device provides solution to faster and more energy efficient computing memories and processors. In collaboration with researchers at the universities of Münster and…
Chess and tennis players perform worse against opponents who are rising in the rankings. Buzz about tennis’s newest rising stars – like 15-year-old prodigy Coco…
A new study proposed a scheme to achieve ultrahigh reduced transition temperature, up to Tc/TF ~ 1, in two-component atomic Fermi gases, a system that…
Scientists showed for the first time the presence of unique magnetic transitions in peculiar structures similar to quasicrystals. In the world of materials science, many…