Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded for the first time in trapping excitonsquasiparticles consisting of negatively charged electrons and positively charged holesin a semiconductor material using… [+5020 chars]
Birds and mammals independently evolved the highest metabolic rates among living animals. Their metabolism generates heat that enables active thermoregulation, shaping the ecological niches they can … [+3587 chars]
image: Visual of two variations of the catalyst, with a segment of the shell removed to show the interior. The white sphere represents the silica shell, the holes are the pores. The bright green sphe… [+5496 chars]
Implementing large-scale linear transformations or matrix computations plays a pivotal role in modern information processing systems. Digital computer systems need to complete up to billions of matri… [+4450 chars]
Some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators have helped researchers draw new leading limits on the existence of long theorized magnetic monopoles from the collisions of energetic cosmic r… [+3455 chars]
Classical thermodynamics has only a handful of laws, of which the most fundamental are the first and second. The first says that energy is always conserved; the second law says that heat always flows… [+10158 chars]
(Photo: Andy Holmes/Unsplash) Sometimes experiments dont go as planned. Case in point: when some scientists set out on making hamsters more peaceful via gene editing, they accidentally made the fuzz… [+2507 chars]
Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Leeds have assembled the largest and most comprehensive family tree of the order primates, including both living and extinct species. Co… [+5422 chars]
While the Moon could be considered geologically dead today, that wasnt the case in the past. Billions of years ago, many volcanic eruptions happened on the surface of the moon, blanketing many parts … [+2673 chars]
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun's atmosphere — the corona. Compared to solar flares — bursts of electromagnetic radiation that travel at… [+12947 chars]
Astronauts living and working in orbit could have their spacecraft and suits cleaned by specially developed microbes. Microorganisms in space present a serious threat to both the health of spacefare… [+2569 chars]
Kavachi Volcano, an active submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands, has long been home to sharks. However their once-peaceful playground in the southwest Pacific Ocean recently became a bit less ser… [+2509 chars]
