The Milky Way is warped
The Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly warped and twisted far away from the...
Simply shining light on dinosaur metal compound kills cancer cells
A new compound based on Iridium, a rare metal which landed in the Gulf of Mexico 66 M years ago, hooked onto albumin, a...
Physicists uncover the topological origin of surface electromagnetic waves
In work that provides insights for several areas of wave physics, including Maxwell electromagnetism, topological quantum states, and plasmonics/metamaterials, scientists have shown that the...
Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection
Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops.
The...
Physicists create exotic electron liquid
By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have created the first "electron liquid" at...
More than 100 new gut bacteria discovered in human microbiome
Scientists working on the gut microbiome have discovered and isolated more than 100 completely new species of bacteria from healthy people's intestines. The study...
Simulating meteorite impacts in the lab
A U.S.-German research team has simulated meteorite impacts in the lab and followed the resulting structural changes in two feldspar minerals with X-rays as...
Supercomputing helps study two-dimensional materials
Materials scientists study and understand the physics of interacting atoms in solids to find ways to improve materials we use in every aspect of...
Explaining a universe composed of matter
The universe consists of a massive imbalance between matter and antimatter. Antimatter and matter are actually the same, but have opposite charges, but there's...
Graphene biosensor could provide early lung cancer diagnosis, research shows
The wonder-material graphene could hold the key to unlocking the next generation of advanced, early stage lung cancer diagnosis.
A team of scientists from the...
Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century:...
Climate change is causing significant changes to phytoplankton in the world's oceans, and a new MIT study finds that over the coming decades these...
