Topological insulators—materials whose surfaces can freely conduct electrons even though their interiors are electrical insulators—have been of great interest to physicists in recent years because of unusual properties ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 6, 2014
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Dengue fever and West Nile fever are mosquito-borne diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide each year, but there is no vaccine against either of the related viruses.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2014
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Molecular biologists from Indiana University are part of a team that has identified a protein that regulates the information present in a large number of messenger ribonucleic acid molecules that are important for carrying ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2014
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The ability to reprogram adult cells so they return to an undifferentiated, pluripotent state—much like an embryonic stem cell—is enabling the development of promising new cell therapies. Accelerating progress in this ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2014
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Cars inch forward slowly in traffic jams, but molecules, when jammed up, can move extremely fast.
Nanophysics
Feb 6, 2014
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Seeking a solution to decoherence—the "noise" that prevents quantum processors from functioning properly—scientists at USC have developed a strategy of linking quantum bits together into voting blocks, a strategy that ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 6, 2014
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Californian rancher Nathan Carver squints as he surveys the parched fields where his family has raised cattle for five generations.
Environment
Feb 6, 2014
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Britain announced emergency funding Thursday to cope with devastating floods after what officials said had been likely the worst spell of winter rainfall in at least 248 years.
Environment
Feb 6, 2014
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MESSENGER has now returned more than 200,000 images acquired from orbit about Mercury. The 1996 proposal for the mission promised a return of at least 1,000 images says Robert Gold, MESSENGER's Science Payload Manager. "We ...
Space Exploration
Feb 6, 2014
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Europe's physics lab CERN said Thursday it was eyeing plans for a circular particle collider that would be seven times more powerful than the facility which discovered the famous "God particle."
General Physics
Feb 6, 2014
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