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Ecology Jul 24, 2024

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

On a muggy July evening, Delaware state biologist Jason Davis is doing what kids have done for ages: Trying to catch a firefly. It's nowhere near as easy as the summer evenings of his own childhood, with only a few in this ...

Condensed Matter Jul 19, 2024

A new way to control the magnetic properties of rare earth elements

The special properties of rare earth magnetic materials are due to the electrons in the 4f shell. Until now, the magnetic properties of 4f electrons were considered almost impossible to control.

Plants & Animals Jul 15, 2024

Climate change threatens overall firefly populations, study shows, but Midwest could see increase

For many who grew up east of the Mississippi River, yellow twinkling lights punctuate magical childhood memories. New England natives call them fireflies, but they're known as lightning bugs from the Midwest to the South. ...

Plants & Animals Jul 8, 2024

Are lightning bugs a threatened species? No one knows

They glow like fading stars and have made memories of shimmering summertime backyards for generations.

Cell & Microbiology Jun 26, 2024

Following the 'BATT Signal:' A new signaling pathway controlling planarian germ cells

Biogenic monoamines—molecules like dopamine and serotonin—are famous for their role as the brain's emissaries of mood, learning and memory, stress mechanisms, and fight-or-flight responses in the body.

Quantum Physics May 16, 2024

Researchers call for a new measurement of time for tunneling particles

In an amazing phenomenon of quantum physics known as tunneling, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light. However, physicists from Darmstadt believe that the time it takes for particles to tunnel has been measured ...

General Physics Apr 6, 2024

Nonvolatile quantum memory: Discovery points path to flash-like memory for storing qubits

Rice University physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material—and a method for finding more like it—that could potentially be used to create flash-like memory capable of storing quantum bits of information, ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 5, 2024

Scientists harness chemical dynamics for complex problem solving

At the intersection of chemistry and computation, researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a hybrid digital-chemical probabilistic computational system based on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction which ...

Nanophysics Mar 2, 2024

Researchers demonstrate 3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity

The most popular words of 2023 were recently released, with AI Large Language Model (LLM) unquestionably topping the list. As a front-runner, ChatGPT also emerged as one of the international buzzwords of the year. These disruptive ...

Condensed Matter Jan 16, 2024

Ultrafast laser pulses could lessen data storage energy needs

A discovery from an experiment with magnets and lasers could be a boon to energy-efficient data storage.

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