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Landmark study concludes marine life can be rebuilt by 2050
An international study recently published in the journal Nature, led by KAUST Professors Carlos Duarte and Susana Agustí, lays out the essential roadmap of actions...
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric...
Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time.
A team...
The architecture of a ‘shape-shifting’ norovirus
Every picture tells a story... none more so than this detailed visualisation of a strain of the norovirus.
Created from 13,000 separate images taken by...
Electron-eating neon causes star to collapse
An international team of researchers has found that neon inside a certain massive star can consume the electrons in the core, a process called...
Biochemists trap and visualize an enzyme as it becomes active
How do you capture a cellular process that transpires in the blink of an eye? Biochemists at MIT have devised a way to trap...
Quantum-entangled light from a vibrating membrane
Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the...
High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory tests speed of light
New measurements confirm, to the highest energies yet explored, that the laws of physics hold no matter where you are or how fast you're...
Tiny optical cavity could make quantum networks possible
Engineers at Caltech have shown that atoms in optical cavities—tiny boxes for light—could be foundational to the creation of a quantum internet. Their work...
Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date
Charlotte Pearson's eyes scanned a palm-sized chunk of ancient tree. They settled on a ring that looked "unusually light," and she made a note...
Skyrmion ‘whirls’ show promise for low-energy computer circuitry
UNSW material scientists have shed new light on a promising new way to store and process information in computers and electronic devices that could...
New metabolism discovered in bacteria
They make sauerkraut sour, turn milk into yogurt and cheese, and give rye bread its intensive flavour: bacteria that ferment nutrients instead of using...
