In a recent study published in Science, four RIKEN organic chemists have come up with a way to selectively synthesize isomers of an important group of aromatic compounds. This promises to make it pos… [+3003 chars]
The worlds most powerful particle accelerator the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has sprung back to life after a three-year shutdown. After planned maintenance and upgrades, it has been turned back on … [+1784 chars]
Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of … [+2123 chars]
Nucleic acids analysis is mainly used in pathogen detection, genetic disease identification and early cancer diagnosis. For example, quantitative analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), a free DNA… [+3017 chars]
Stable packets of light waves — called optical solitons — are emitted in ultrashort-pulse lasers as a chain of light flashes. These solitons often combine into pairs with very short temporal separati… [+2869 chars]
Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies that borrows a page from current, everyday mechanical devices. Reliable, compac… [+8335 chars]
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features two merging galaxies in the VV-689 system, nicknamed the Angel Wing. Unlike chance alignments of galaxies, which only appear to overlap wh… [+1598 chars]
This artists concept shows a SpaceX Crew Dragon docking with the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX NASA will provide live coverage of the undocking and departure of the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax… [+2782 chars]
Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that c… [+3514 chars]
It has been common knowledge that climatic shifts, in particular the transition from the warm and wet Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya) to the cold and dry Pleistocene (2.6 mya 10 kya), played a key role in the… [+5859 chars]
The discovery of a new type of stellar explosion called a "micronova" has shook astronauts. The explosion was noted through thermonuclear blasts that were discovered on the polar regions of a white d… [+3655 chars]
In the work led by first-author Joan Garcia-Porta, a postdoctoral research associate in biology in Arts & Sciences and now a fellow in the Department of Genetics at the University of Barcelona, t… [+3064 chars]
