science
Behavior of ‘trapped’ electrons in a one-dimensional world observed in the...
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...
An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date, and their...
Scientists prove that binary stars reflect light from one another
UNSW astronomers have shown that binary stars – two stars locked in orbit around each other – reflect light as well as radiating it,...
First bacterial genome created entirely with a computer
All the genome sequences of organisms known throughout the world are stored in a database belonging to the National Center for Biotechnology Information in...
Researchers pinpoint origin of photons in mysterious gamma-ray bursts
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts, among...
Building blocks of DNA and RNA could have appeared together before...
Scientists for the first time have found strong evidence that RNA and DNA could have arisen from the same set of precursor molecules even...
Rise of religion pre-dates Incas at Lake Titicaca
An ancient group of people made ritual offerings to supernatural deities near the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, about 500 years...
Fish slime: An untapped source of potential new antibiotics
As current antibiotics dwindle in effectiveness against multidrug-resistant pathogens, researchers are seeking potential replacements in some unlikely places. Now a team has identified bacteria...
Saturn’s rings coat tiny moons
New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn's rings. The closest-ever flybys by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that the...
