Scientists reshape light to control magnetic memory and a material’s magnetic properties
UC San Diego engineers showed that carefully shaped ultrafast laser beams can reverse magnetization in platinum-cobalt multilayers without…
Biology’s four-letter DNA alphabet just expanded to eight
Researchers showed that E. coli RNA polymerase can read and transcribe an eight-letter genetic alphabet containing four natural…
Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
Last month, the United Nations warned that this year’s El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by…
Scientists use sound to control material behavior, adjust device stiffness
Researchers have uncovered a way to control material behavior using sound. In a study published in Nature Communications,…
Meet CoralME: A new way to see the hidden metabolism of your gut
The community of microbes living in your gut is small to the eye but huge for your health.…
Battery-free sticker delivers real-time vitamin C readings from sweat
A fingertip on a cup may soon reveal more about your nutrition than a clinic visit. A team…