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Researchers create new form of matter
This image shows the equipment used by the Ketterle group to create a supersolid. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Supersolid is crystalline and superfluid at...
Ancient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest
We often think of the Amazon rainforest as a vast expanse of nature untouched by humans. But a new study in Science suggests that's...
100,000-year-old human skulls from east Asia reveal complex mix of trends in time, space
Virtual reconstructions of the Xuchang 1 and 2 human crania are superimposed on the archeological site where they were discovered.Credit: Xiujie Wu
Two partial archaic...
Poker-playing AI program first to beat pros at no-limit Texas hold ’em
Upping the ante on artificial intelligence: Michael Bowling (center) flanked by the co-authors of DeepStack.Credit: John Ulan
A team of computing scientists from the University...
Computer operating system and short movie stored on DNA
In a study in Science, researchers Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski describe a new coding technique for maximizing the data-storage capacity of DNA molecules.Credit:...
Powerful RNA-based technology could help shape the future of therapeutic antibodies
The "life cycle" of an mRNA in a eukaryotic cell. RNA is transcribed in the nucleus; processing, it is transported to the cytoplasm and...
New path suggested for nuclear fusion
Using shaped laser pulses -- ultrashort, tuned bursts of coherent light -- might make it possible to nudge atoms in a deuterium/tritium molecule close...
Want more crop variety? Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication
This figure shows how during the domestication of ancestral crops, plants carrying spontaneous mutations in domestication genes were selected for. The same genes can...
Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion of atoms
Visualization of a hybrid bipartite entanglement between a single photon (blue) and an atomic spin-wave excitation inside quantum memory glass cell, subsequently confirmed in...
Shape-shifting molecular robots respond to DNA signals
Schematic diagram of the molecular robot. Molecular actuators work inside the robot, and the shape of the artificial cell membrane, which are bodies, are...
Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole ‘burp’
This is an artist impression illustrating a supermassive black hole with X-ray emission emanating from its inner region (pink) and ultrafast winds streaming from...
