Tiny ocean crustaceans use genetic and epigenetic tools to weather climate change
Copepods are tiny crustaceans, barely visible to the naked eye, but beautiful under a microscope and hugely important…
Researchers create safer nonstick surface, cutting use of ‘forever chemicals’
This piece of fabric is coated with the new non-stick material made via the nanoscale fletching technique. The…
Beta-carotene keeps enzymes active under heavy load
Preparation of a reading device in the laboratory. Credit: Magdalena Jooss Enzymes are vital to metabolism and drive…
Blades Of Light: New Tabletop Megatesla Tech
Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel method for generating ultrahigh magnetic fields via laser-driven…
Maximized circularly polarized luminescence from metal clusters accelerates chiral photopolymerization
Chiroptical properties of discrete (S/R)-Ag6 clusters (stage I) The construction of atomically precise metal clusters with CPL by…
A Theory Of Everything: Entangled Atomic Clock Experiment Could Finally Provide Hints
A new experiment involving a network of entangled atomic clocks could finally help us test how quantum mechanics…
Confirmed by Einstein – if you fall into a black hole, no one will see you disappear… and you will be surprised why
Black holes continue to be some of the most fascinating phenomena in the universe. They are an unknown…
Physicists use terahertz light to manipulate electronic properties in 2D materials
The new method makes it possible to directly control ultrathin semiconductors using pulses of terahertz light. Credit: Bielefeld…
Supercomputer simulation clarifies how turbulent boundary layers evolve at moderate Reynolds numbers
After a certain point in the development of a turbulent flow—for example, as air moves over a wing…
Researchers uncover a topological excitonic insulator with a tunable momentum order
Artistic illustration of a topological exciton insulator: Excitons condense in the bulk of the material, forming a collective…
Extreme Plasmons Breakthrough Makes Gamma-Ray Lasers and Future Multiverse Probes “Very Probable”
A University of Colorado Denver engineer has developed a quantum tool involving extreme plasmons that he believes has…
It races through the universe at 300,000 km/s — and never runs out of energy
Light speeds along at 300,000 km/s—yet it never tires. Photons, having no mass, blaze through the near-empty vacuum…