Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems. Predicting the properties of a molecule or material requires calculating the collective behavior of its electron… [+4088 chars]
Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a novel yet simple method for producing vertical stacks of alternating superconductor and insulator layers of tantalum disulphide (TaS2). T… [+3390 chars]
Newswise — Only one thousandth of a milligram of the bacterial botulinum toxin is necessary to kill a living organism. The toxin unfolds its lethal effect by preventing the release of neurotransmitte… [+3258 chars]
Researchers at the Universities of Bayreuth and Linköping have produced two surprising compounds of nitrogen and the rare earth metal yttrium under very high pressure. The new polynitrides contain ri… [+4202 chars]
Using data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 21 new high-probability extremely low-mass white dwarfs. The… [+3252 chars]
For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt, the region between Jupiter and Mars, speckled with hundreds … [+3885 chars]
The Polaris Dawn mission has a December launch target. Commander and billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who will command the private Polaris Dawn mission on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, made … [+2890 chars]
<li>Park, E., Pan, Z., Zhang, Z., Lin, L. & Xing, Y. The expanding landscape of alternative splicing variation in human populations. Am. J. Hum. Genet.102, 1126 (2018). CAS PubMed PubMed C… [+12875 chars]
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft is lifted onto the GO Navigator recovery ship after it ... [+] landed with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover, and Japan Aero… [+2150 chars]
NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of … [+2891 chars]
Comment on this story An ordinary lightning bolt can be startling enough, but researchers are unlocking the secrets behind a rarely observed species of electrical discharge called gigantic jets. The… [+4808 chars]
Venus has been called Earths evil twin, and that's notsadlybecause it looks just like Earth but has a mustache. This episode of The List Show dives into that intriguing moniker along with 99 other … [+611 chars]