How a ladybug warps space-time
Researchers at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, led by Markus Aspelmeyer have succeeded in measuring the gravitational field of...
Bacteria know how to exploit quantum mechanics, study finds
Photosynthetic organisms harvest light from the sun to produce the energy they need to survive. A new paper published by University of Chicago researchers...
Long-accepted theory of vertebrate origin upended by fossilized fish larvae
A new study of fossilized lampreys dating from more than 300 million years ago is challenging a long-held theory about the evolutionary origin of...
Creating a new type of computing that’s ‘naturally probabilistic’
"You see, nature is unpredictable. How do you expect to predict it with a computer?" said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at...
Fossil forests under Antarctic ice
In around 1833 the first specimens of fossilized wood from Antarctica were reported by surgeon, naturalist and artist James Eights.
We now know that fossils...
Researchers use silkworm silk to model muscle tissue
Researchers at Utah State University are using silkworm silk to grow skeletal muscle cells, improving on traditional methods of cell culture and hopefully leading...
Sushi-like rolled 2D heterostructures may lead to new miniaturized electronics
The recent synthesis of one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, a type of heterostructure made by layering two-dimensional materials that are one atom thick, may...
Microscope allows ultrafast nanoscale manipulation while tracking energy dynamics
Since the early 2010s, ultrafast probing of materials at atomic-level resolution has been enabled by terahertz scanning tunneling microscopes (THz-STM). But these devices can't...
Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as ‘modern global insurance policy’
University of Arizona researcher Jekan Thanga is taking scientific inspiration from an unlikely source: the biblical tale of Noah's Ark. Rather than two of...
Mars Express unlocks the secrets of curious cloud
When spring arrives in southern Mars, a cloud of water ice emerges near the 20-kilometer-tall Arsia Mons volcano, rapidly stretching out for many hundreds...
Physics undergraduate proposes solution to quantum field theory problem
When physicists need to understand the quantum mechanics that describe how atomic clocks work, how your magnet sticks to your refrigerator or how particles...
