Scientists discover first organism with chlorophyll genes that doesn’t photosynthesize
For the first time scientists have found an organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis.
The peculiar organism is dubbed 'corallicolid'...
Journey to the Big Bang through the lithium of a Milky Way star
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected lithium in a primitive star in our galaxy....
A microlaser emitting helical light
Researchers recently demonstrated the realization of an integrated microlaser based on a novel design that emits light in chiral modes, thus producing corkscrews of...
Restore natural forests to meet global climate goals
International plans to restore forests to combat global warming are flawed and will fall far short of meeting 1.5C climate targets, according to new...
‘Molecular surgery’ reshapes living tissue with electricity but no incisions
Traditional surgery to reshape a nose or ear entails cutting and suturing, sometimes followed by long recovery times and scars. But now, researchers have...
Study of diversity training suggests it doesn’t lead to much change
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School has found through experimentation that diversity training does not generally result in much...
Scientists set record for light-matter interaction
An international team of physicists from the Mandelstam Institute for Theoretical Physics at Wits University and the Institut Néel in Grenoble, France, has created...
Behavior of ‘trapped’ electrons in a one-dimensional world observed in the lab
A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has, for the first time, seen a particularly exotic behaviour of electrons on an atomic...
Scientists capture live, atomic-level detail of nanoparticle formation
Scientists at the Sensitive Instrument Facility of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory achieved real-time atom rearrangement monitoring using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron...
Shrinking a medical lab to fit on a fingertip
Identifying a patient's viral infection or diagnosing a blood disorder usually requires a lab and skilled technicians. But researchers at Princeton University have developed...
Subaru telescope helps determine that dark matter is not made up of tiny primordial...
An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date, and their...
