Engineers at Caltech have developed a switchone of the most fundamental components of computingusing optical, rather than electronic, components. The development could aid efforts to achieve ultrafas… [+4299 chars]
US space agency NASA has warned that the Sun is expected to release more frequent horrific solar flares in the near future as it nears the peak of its 11-year cycle called the solar maximum. Solar … [+1684 chars]
Bacteria and other unicellular organisms developed sophisticated ways to actively navigate their way, despite being comparably simple structures. To reveal these mechanisms, researchers from the Max … [+3968 chars]
In a study published in the journal Genome Research, investigators in UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Johns Hopkins University have illuminated the immunoglobulin (a… [+3768 chars]
Effects of grid spacing on habitat hydraulic complexity metrics The sensitivity of the habitat hydraulic complexity metrics to s was examined by calculating the metrics for s=0.06, 0.12, 0.18, and 0… [+26651 chars]
Taken from the August 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Whether youre sunbathing by the sea on a beach holiday, sip… [+3993 chars]
A number of mysterious gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) appear as isolated flashes at considerable distances from any obvious galactic sources. The origins of these 'castaway' GRBs have now been traced to a p… [+2671 chars]
What appear to be ripples of blue sand dusting the Martian landscape make the Red Planet appear even more alien than usual. The striking coloration is not, however, what it seems. To see the true be… [+2539 chars]
Sabina Raducan has the kind of job youd expect the protagonist in a 1990s Michael Bay movie to hold. In The Rock, Nicolas Cages Dr. Stanley Goodspeed is an FBI chemical weapons specialist who helps s… [+8576 chars]
Stars come in a wide variety of sizes. Some are small and some are big. Some are what we would consider to be behemoths. The sun may seem big to us from our small, rocky world, yet it is dwarfed by s… [+4287 chars]
The first exoplanet has been discovered by Subaru Strategic Program using the infrared spectrograph IRD on the Subaru Telescope (IRD-SSP). This planet, Ross 508b, is a super-Earth with about four tim… [+7888 chars]
What is a Soliton? The word "soliton" is derived from solitary since it is a solitary wave that acts as a particle and satisfies several specific conditions. These conditions include maintaining sha… [+5336 chars]
