The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A newly discovered fast radio burst has some unique properties that are simultaneously giving astronomers important … [+4906 chars]
New work led by Carnegie's Zhiyong Wang untangles a complex cellular signaling process that underpins plants' ability to balance expending energy on growth and defending themselves from pathogens. Th… [+4810 chars]
Lasers use coherent waves of light: All the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics tells us that particles like atoms should also be thought of as waves. As a … [+5798 chars]
BySpace Telescope Science InstituteJune 14, 2022 This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant of a massive … [+19945 chars]
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance snapped this photo of a balancing boulder and snake-head rock on June 12, 2022, using its Mastcam-Z camera system. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) NASA's Persever… [+2588 chars]
<li>Okayasu, I. et al. A novel method in the induction of reliable experimental acute and chronic ulcerative colitis in mice. Gastroenterology98, 694702 (1990). CAS Article Google Scholar </l… [+1912 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]
Nanostructured materials are at the forefront of materials science due to their unique physical features. To characterize their microscopic characteristics, a variety of approaches can be used, each … [+2308 chars]
Mars is hardly a verdant world today, yet evidence abounds that liquid water once flowed over the Red Planet. Now, the latest rover to arrive on Marss surfaceZhurong, part of Chinas Tianwen-1 mission… [+4387 chars]
Atomically thin semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide are promising materials for nanoscale photonic devices. These approximately 2D semiconductors support so-called exci… [+4018 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]
image: This series of images shows how astronomers find stellar streams by reversing the light and dark, similar to negative images. Color images of each of the nearby galaxies featured are included … [+6059 chars]
