When memory qubits and photons get entangled
Encrypting data in a way that ensures secure communication is an ever-growing challenge because crucial components of today's encryption systems cannot withstand future quantum...
Inexpensive tin packs a big punch for the future of supercapacitors
A sustainable, powerful micro-supercapacitor may be on the horizon, thanks to an international collaboration of researchers from Penn State and the University of Electronic...
Ultrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses, study finds
The coronavirus' structure is an all-too-familiar image, with its densely packed surface receptors resembling a thorny crown. These spike-like proteins latch onto healthy cells...
New measurement technique unravels what gives hummingbird wings their characteristic sound
The hummingbird is named after its pleasant humming sound when it hovers in front of flowers to feed. But only now has it become...
Males give up on trying to attract females when they are in poor condition,...
Male animals are less likely to try to attract a mate when they are in poor condition, a paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution has...
An ancient Maya ambassador’s bones show a life of privilege and hardship
An important Maya man buried nearly 1,300 years ago led a privileged yet difficult life. The man, a diplomat named Ajpach' Waal, suffered malnutrition...
Study predicts the oceans will start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs
The world's oceans are a vast repository for gases including ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. They absorb these gases from the atmosphere and draw them...
Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland -- and pulled up a fifteen-foot-long tube of...
Discovery of ‘knock-on chemistry’ opens new frontier in reaction dynamics
Research by a team of chemists at the University of Toronto, led by Nobel Prize-winning researcher John Polanyi, is shedding new light on the...
Scientists plumb the depths of the world’s tallest geyser
When Steamboat Geyser, the world's tallest, started erupting again in 2018 in Yellowstone National Park after decades of relative silence, it raised a few...
Three bacterial strains discovered on space station may help grow plants on Mars
In order to withstand the rigors of space on deep-space missions, food grown outside of Earth needs a little extra help from bacteria. Now,...
