When my colleague Adam Marcus, editorial director at Medscape, and I launched the blog Retraction Watch in 2010, we didnt realize we were riding a wave. At the time, we thought journals were issuing … [+5268 chars]
Deep in northern Ecuador’s dense, humid cloud forests, at the very tip of a single frond of a single fern, the population of one of the world’s rarest frogs was poised to increase—hopefully. Photogr… [+3340 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. From fixing bones to making antibacterial surfaces, Michael… [+17499 chars]
In early human history, caves provided people with protection from the elements and a place to call home. Now, similar formations on the moon could provide pioneering astronauts with a lunar safe hav… [+5328 chars]
Concurrent control over band gap and the charge carrier density in semiconductors is desirable in photodetectors, highly tunable transistors, and lasers. Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene is a van-der-… [+6090 chars]
The P vs NP problem is one of the most difficult problems in theoretical computer science. P versus NP Usually, you can verify a solution to a problem. Whether its using multiplication for divisio… [+2726 chars]
New brain mechanisms linked to rats impulsive cocaine craving have been discovered by National Institutes of Health researchers. The discovery could pave the way for treating substance use disorders… [+5439 chars]
Researchers at the University of WisconsinMadison have described the way an enzyme and proteins interact to maintain the protective caps, called telomeres, at the end of chromosomes, a new insight in… [+5793 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of the most distant star known in the universe, which had been announced by scientists using Webb's predecessor the Hubble Space Telescope only a f… [+3335 chars]
