How spacetime is built by quantum entanglement
A collaboration of physicists and a mathematician has made a significant step toward unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics by explaining how spacetime emerges from quantu...
Expanding the code of life with new ‘letters’
The DNA encoding all life on Earth is made of four building blocks called nucleotides, commonly known as letters, that line up in pairs and twist into a double helix. Now, two groups...
Do atoms going through a double slit ‘know’ if they are being observed? – Physics World
Does a massive quantum particle – such as an atom – in a double-slit experiment behave differently depending on when it is observed? The techniques used could have practical applicat...
Discovery of a fundamental limit to the evolution of the genetic code: A study performed at IRB Barcelona offers an explanation as to why the genetic code, the dictionary used by organisms to translat
Nature is constantly evolving–its limits determined only by variations that threaten the viability of species. This halt in the increase in the complexity of life happened more than ...
Breakthrough helps explain how DNA is organized in our cells
In our laboratory, we study one such histone variant called H2A.Z, says Célia Jeronimo, PhD, research associate in Dr. Robert’s laboratory and first author of the study. H2A.Z is loc...
When an electron splits in two
Our work is the first to combine single-electron resolution—which allows us to address the fractionalization process at the elementary scale—with time resolution to directly visualiz...
What shape is the universe?
In fact, two distant particles travelling in two straight lines would actually intersect before ending up back where they started. This type of universe, conveniently easy to imagine...
Two Large Hadron Collider experiments first to observe rare subatomic process
LHCb and CMS both study the properties of particles to search for cracks in the Standard Model, our best description so far of the behavior of all directly observable matter in the u...
Researchers seeking to make computer brains smarter by making them more like our own
For the first time, a circuit of about 100 artificial synapses was proved to perform a simple version of a typical human task: image classification. For all its errors and potential ...
Researchers obtain precise estimates of the epigenetic mutation rate
It is as yet not known how important epigenetic marks are in plant evolution. In close collaboration with researchers from the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (...
Researchers investigate an enzyme important for nervous system health
The new image of TTLL7, from a family of proteins that has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases, provides critical information about how the protein works. Credit: Image courtes...
Researchers find brain area that integrates speech’s rhythms
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke and MIT scientists have discovered an area of the brain that is sensitive to the timing of speech, a crucial element of spoken language. By comparison, syllables ...
NASA’s WFIRST spacecraft offers a huge step forward in our understanding of dark matter
WFIRST will survey large areas of the sky measuring the effects of dark matter on the distribution of galaxies in the universe. It will provide a huge step forward in our understandi...
NASA’s multi-purpose NICER/SEXTANT mission on track for 2016 launch
Technicians assemble a new 25-foot test facility, equipped with a one-meter parabolic optical mirror, which will be used to align NICER/SEXTANT’s 56 optics and detectors. We’re on sc...
Kepler’s six years in science (and counting)
NASA’s Kepler: Six Years of Science. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Kepler spacecraft began hunting for planets outside our solar system on May 12, 2009. Its mission was to survey ...
How olive oil is processed
Therefore, harvesting time is frequently a compromise between harvesting efficiency and final oil quality. Traditional Olive Oil Processing Traditional olive oil processing begins w...
GOES-R satellite begins environmental testing
Credit: Lockheed Martin The GOES-R satellite, slated to launch in 2016, is ready for environmental testing. The GOES-R satellite and its instruments will undergo a variety of rigoro...
First images of LHC collisions at 13 TeV
These test collisions were to set up systems that protect the machine and detectors from particles that stray from the edges of the beam. This set-up will give the accelerator team t...
Exogenous microRNAs in maternal food pass through placenta, regulate fetal gene expression
In a new study published in the Protein & Cell, Chen-Yu Zhang’s group at Nanjing University reports that small non-coding RNAs in maternal food can transfer through placenta to r...
Educating the immune system to prevent allergies
A research team at the Montreal Children’s Hospital from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is bringing them hope with a potential vaccine that n...
COSMIAC’s third CubeSat mission will study ionosphere
The project, called Scintillation Observations and Response of the Ionosphere to Electrodynamics (SORTIE), will involve the launch of a CubeSat to collect data to study the ionospher...
Cause of regression in individuals with Down syndrome identified
Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has found that Catatonia, a treatable disorder, may cause regression in patients with Down syndrome. Individuals with regressive Down ...
Artificial photosynthesis: New, stable photocathode with great potential
New photocathode with several advantages Under the Light2Hydrogen BMBF Cluster project and an on-going Solar H2 DFG Priority programme, a team from the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels...
Ants’ movements hide mathematical patterns
The authors, whose study has been published in the journal Mathematical Biosciences, started by observing the behaviour of ants individually and subsequently as a collective group. C...
Agriculture, declining mobility drove humans’ shift to lighter bones
Cross-sections of an Upper Paleolithic, left, and Early Medieval, right, thigh bone, showing the change in bone shape and reduction in strength in the later individual. Credit: Study...