Think you know everything about a material? Try giving it a twist—literally. That's the main idea of an emerging field in condensed matter physics called "twistronics," which has researchers drastically changing the properties ...
Nanophysics
Aug 11, 2023
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Life runs on ribosomes. Every cell on Earth needs ribosomes to translate genetic information into all the proteins needed for the organism to function—and to in turn make more ribosomes. But scientists still lack a clear ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2023
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A team of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and others, led by Ohio University Professor of Physics, and Argonne National Laboratory scientist, Saw Wai Hla, ...
General Physics
May 31, 2023
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A team of scientists led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and University of California, Santa Cruz has discovered that animals' genomic information can help predict which mammal species are more likely to face extinction.
Ecology
Apr 27, 2023
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Even if you are not a quantum physicist, you will most likely have heard of Schrödinger's famous cat. Erwin Schrödinger came up with the feline that can be alive and dead at the same time in a thought experiment in 1935. ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 20, 2023
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When many quantum particles interact, complex systems can be formed. And this complexity allows reaching a temperature of absolute zero—at least in principle.
Quantum Physics
Apr 4, 2023
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Ants are pretty much everywhere. There are more than 14,000 different species, spread over every continent except Antarctica, and researchers have estimated that there are more than four quadrillion individual ants on Earth—that's ...
Evolution
Mar 31, 2023
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Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds to the specific amount ...
Nanophysics
Mar 29, 2023
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Researchers have discovered a way to "translate" quantum information between different kinds of quantum technologies, with significant implications for quantum computing, communication, and networking.
Quantum Physics
Mar 24, 2023
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A protein complex prevents the repair of genome damage in human cells, in mice and in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a team of researchers at the University of Cologne has discovered. They also successfully inhibited ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2023
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