The crew for the first mission in the privately funded Polaris program is scaling new heights to prepare for their record-breaking SpaceX flight later this year. A mission profile, launch schedule e… [+4487 chars]
Genetic variants that can act as switches directing structural changes in the RNA molecules that code for proteins in plants have been experimentally validated in plants for the first time. The chang… [+6853 chars]
Northwestern University chemists have taken inspiration from plants to revolutionize the way an important industrial chemical is made. In a first for the field, the Northwestern team used light and … [+4446 chars]
The face of a petite and dark-haired woman has been reconstructed by the researchers. What is special about this woman is that she was one of the richest residents of Bronze-Age Bohemia as she was bu… [+1539 chars]
National University of Singapore researchers have predicted that Landau levels belonging to different valleys in a two-dimensional (2D) valleytronic material, monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2), ca… [+3390 chars]
ByUniversity of UtahJune 14, 2022 Mathematicians have discovered that moiré patterns formed by rotating and stretching one lattice relative to another may be used to design a variety of composite ma… [+8035 chars]
Many technologies are designed using quantum mechanics. Such technologies are based on exactly equal photons. However, it isn’t easy to generate such photons. They must have precisely the same wavele… [+2795 chars]
This week, the journal The Anatomical Record has published a study coordinated by Emiliano Bruner, who leads the Paleoneurology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana… [+2381 chars]
Olivine is an important component of Earth's upper mantle. The effect of boron on the properties of olivine has been previously ignored since boron is largely incompatible with olivine. Most recovere… [+2475 chars]
The properties of cephalopod skin have been harnessed to create an artificial skin with potential applications for neurorobotics, skin prosthetics, and artificial organs. The new skin, developed in… [+2653 chars]
E. coli cells used in the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) on an agar plate.Credit: Jeffrey Barrick On 24 February 1988, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski filled 12 flasks with sugary growt… [+8431 chars]
Physicists studying quantum many-body physics very rarely reach exact solutions or conclusions, particularly in more than one dimension. This is also true for the Fermi polaron problem, describing in… [+7243 chars]
