A breakthrough for organic reactions in water
Researchers discover way to use water as solvent in a reaction widely used to make chemical products Green-chemistry researchers at McGill University have discovered a way to use wa...
Watching individual neurons respond to magnetic therapy
The advance will help researchers understand the underlying physiological effects of TMS – a procedure used to treat psychiatric disorders – and optimize its use as a therapeutic tre...
Study helps unlock mystery of high-temp superconductors
This illustration shows the d-orbital shape that Binghamton physicist Michael Lawler and his colleagues observed in the density wave of a high-temperature superconductor. Michael Law...
Smallest Force Ever Measured Detected with the Help of Ultracold Atoms
Using a combination of lasers and a unique optical trapping system that provides a cloud of ultracold atoms, the scientists measured a force of just 42 yoctonewtons. In fact, there a...
Researchers create quantum dots with single-atom precision
The team assembled the dots atom-by-atom, using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), and relied on an atomically precise surface template to define a lattice of allowed atom positi...
Researchers bounce polarized photons off satellites to show feasibility of space based quantum communications
Qubit pulses are sent at 100 Mhz repetition rate and are reflected back at the single photon level from the satellite, thus mimicking a QKD source on Space. Up till now, most scientis...
Reining in chaos in particle colliders yields big results
A method to correct tiny defects in the LHC’s superconducting magnets (example shown above) was crucial to the discovery of the Higgs boson, which was announced in 2012. Credit: CERN...
New study: Ancient Arctic sharks tolerated brackish water 50 million years ago
Oxygen isotopes in the teeth indicated sharks living in the Eocene Arctic Ocean roughly 50 million years ago were tolerant of brackish water, unlike their shark relatives living toda...
New method to grow zebrafish embryonic stem cells can regenerate whole fish
For the first time, researchers report the ability to maintain zebrafish-derived ESCs for more than 2 years without the need to grow them on a feeder cell layer, in a study published...
Marine bacteria are natural source of chemical fire retardants
Some marine bacteria produce potent persistent organic compounds that are nearly identical to flame retardant chemicals. Credit: UC San Diego School of Medicine Researchers at the U...
Evolution of life’s operating system revealed in detail
The researchers found distinct fingerprints in the ribosomes where new structures were added to the ribosomal surface without altering the pre-existing ribosomal core from the last u...
Emergence of bacterial vortex explained
Researchers from Brown University and the University of Cambridge have explained for the first time how that dual-motion vortex is generated. Using computer modeling and a clever exp...
‘Compressive sensing’ provides new approach to measuring a quantum system
Recovered position and momentum images showing how compressive sensing can be used to measure two conjugate variables, in this case using the university logo as an object. Compressiv...
A step closer to bio-printing transplantable tissues and organs: Study
The research challenge – networking cells with a blood supply. One of the greatest challenges to the engineering of large tissues and organs is growing a network of blood vessels and...
USC scientists create new battery that’s cheap, clean, rechargeable… and organic
Narayan collaborated with Surya Prakash, Prakash, professor of chemistry and director of the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, as well as USC’s Bo Yang, Lena Hoober-Burkhardt...
US company in Iowa churns out 100 cloned cows a year
Only the numbers that follow are different: 2, 3, 4 and 6. The tag also bears the name of the company that bred them and is holding them temporarily in a field at its headquarters in...
Tofu ingredient could revolutionize solar panel manufacture
The chemical used to make tofu and bath salts could also replace a highly toxic and expensive substance used to make solar cells, a University study published in the journal Nature h...
Skulls with mix of Neandertal and primitive traits illuminate human evolution
To answer these questions, scientists have needed an accurate picture of European populations around 400,000 years ago, the early stages of the Neandertal lineage. What makes the Sim...
Curiosity travels through ancient glaciers on Mars
3,500 million years ago the Martian crater Gale, through which the NASA rover Curiosity is currently traversing, was covered with glaciers, mainly over its central mound. NASA’s Mars...
Animals built reefs 550 million years ago, fossil study finds
It is a remarkable survivor of an ancient aquatic world – now a new study sheds light on how one of Earth’s oldest reefs was formed. Scientists say it was at this point that tiny aqu...
Ancient ocean currents may have changed pacing and intensity of ice ages
How vigorously those currents moved in the past can be inferred by how much North Atlantic water made it that far, as measured by isotope ratios of the element neodymium bearing the ...
Six clicks: History of supercomputers – fast, faster, fastest
Each of these nodes has two Intel Xeon IvyBridge processors and three Xeon Phi processors for a total of 3,120,000 computing cores. Besides the general purpose Xeon IvyBridge CPUs, T...
PHP 5.5.14 Officially Released
PHP, an HTML-embedded scripting language with syntax borrowed from C, Java, and Perl, with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in, has been updated to version 5.5.14. The...
EARTH Magazine: Rosetta off to decipher a comet’s secrets
Alexandria, Va. — Hello World. Rosetta — the ESA spacecraft currently on a 10-year mission to orbit and land on a comet — awoke in January after a three-year hibernation, and was rea...
Git 2.0.1 Version Control System Available for Download
Git 2.0.1, a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency, is now available for d...