Big game animals must learn to migrate and pass knowledge across generations
A team of scientists at the University of Wyoming has provided the first empirical evidence that ungulates (hooved mammals) must learn where and when...
Researchers resolve a major mystery in 2-D material electronics
Schottky diodes are composed of a metal in contact with a semiconductor. Despite their simple construction, Schottky diodes are tremendously useful components in modern...
Pristine quantum light source created at the edge of silicon chip
The smallest amount of light you can have is one photon, so dim that it's pretty much invisible to humans. While imperceptible, these tiny...
Scientists ‘teleport’ a quantum gate
Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the "teleportation" of a quantum gate...
Why we stick to false beliefs: Feedback trumps hard evidence
Ever wonder why flat earthers, birthers, climate change and Holocaust deniers stick to their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
New...
Warming: Peatlands will store more carbon initially, but that will change
Peatlands are extremely effective at storing carbon, but an international study featuring a University of Queensland researcher has found climate change could stop that.
The...
Building a better brain-in-a-dish, faster and cheaper
Writing in the current online issue of the journal Stem Cells and Development, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe...
Evidence of early planetary shake-up
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their existence points to an early planetary rearrangement in our...
Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range
Graphene—an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms—is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory,...
Discovered: Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamaks
Fusion, the power that drives the sun and stars, produces massive amounts of energy. Scientists here on Earth seek to replicate this process, which...
Artificial intelligence helps track down mysterious cosmic radio bursts
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI.
Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a...
