Venus flytraps don’t eat the insects that pollinate them
While most people are familiar with Venus flytraps and their snapping jaws, there is still a lot that scientists don't know about the biology...
Smartly containing the cloud increases computing efficiency
Not too long ago booting up a computer meant there was time for a lengthy coffee break even before the workday started. For a...
Researchers prove that precisely timed brain stimulation improves memory
Precisely timed electrical stimulation to the left side of the brain can reliably and significantly enhance learning and memory performance by as much as...
Data-driven shale dialogue
It's been a decade since the start of the Marcellus Shale gas boom in Pennsylvania, and today more than 10,000 unconventional gas wells dot...
Researchers take terahertz data links around the bend
An off-the-wall new study by Brown University researchers shows that terahertz frequency data links can bounce around a room without dropping too much data....
Another piece to the puzzle in naked mole rats’ long, cancer-free life
With their large buck teeth and wrinkled, hairless bodies, naked mole rats won't be winning any awards for cutest rodent. But their long life...
A new radiation detector made from graphene
Graphene is a remarkable material: light, strong, transparent and electrically conductive. It can also convert heat to electricity. Researchers have recently exploited this thermoelectric...
Active genetics technology opens new horizons
In 2015, University of California San Diego biologists Ethan Bier and Valentino Gantz developed a breakthrough technology known as "active genetics," which results in...
First experimental evidence for superionic ice
Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline...
Ants: Master manipulators for biodiversity, or sweet treats
Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the...
New controls scale quantum chips
A fundamental barrier to scaling quantum computing machines is "qubit interference." In new research published in Science Advances magazine, engineers and physicists from Rigetti Computing describe...
