Discovery provides path to pathogen-targeted antibiotics
"Take with food" is a common warning for people using antibiotics, but a discovery announced this week in the scientific journal Nature may create a path...
For superconductors, discovery comes from disorder
Discovered more than 100 years ago, superconductivity continues to captivate scientists who seek to develop components for highly efficient energy transmission, ultrafast electronics or...
Discovery of a bottleneck relief in photosynthesis may have a major impact on food...
Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase...
Early species developed much faster than previously thought, research shows
When Earth's species were rapidly diversifying nearly 500 million years ago, that evolution was driven by complex factors including global cooling, more oxygen in...
Newfound superconductor material could be the ‘silicon of quantum computers’
A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose scientists have found...
Optofluidic chip with nanopore ‘smart gate’ developed for single molecule analysis
A new chip-based platform developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz integrates nanopores and optofluidic technology with a feedback-control circuit to enable an unprecedented...
Superdeep diamonds confirm ancient reservoir deep under Earth’s surface
Analyses show that gases found in microscopic inclusions in diamonds come from a stable subterranean reservoir at least as old as the Moon, hidden...
Total annihilation for supermassive stars
A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and focus on a new breed of...
Data assimilation method offers improved hurricane forecasting
Operational models for severe weather forecasting predicted Hurricane Harvey would become a Category 1 hurricane in 2017, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric...
Who won the war? We did, says everyone
Ask any of the few remaining World War II veterans what they did during the war and you're likely to get a humble answer....
Scientists discover new state of matter
A team of physicists has uncovered a new state of matter—a breakthrough that offers promise for increasing storage capabilities in electronic devices and enhancing...