science
Nano-optic endoscope sees deep into tissue at high resolution
The diagnosis of diseases based in internal organs often relies on biopsy samples collected from affected regions. But collecting such samples is highly error-prone...
Carbon ‘leak’ may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging...
The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades to millenia. But the process of locking...
Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the...
Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the...
New algorithm could help find new physics—inverse method takes wave functions...
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm that could provide meaningful answers to condensed matter physicists in their searches...
Researchers review the rapid progress in machine learning for the chemical...
A new tool is drastically changing the face of chemical research – artificial intelligence. In a new paper published in Nature, researchers review the...
Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment
Many foods produced on an industrial scale include raw ingredients mixed together in enormous stainless steel machines that can be difficult to clean. With...
Study reveals new geometric shape used by nature to pack cells...
As an embryo develops, tissues bend into complex three-dimensional shapes that lead to organs. Epithelial cells are the building blocks of this process forming,...
Ant study sheds light on the evolution of workers and queens
Worker ants, despite their diligence, seldom encounter opportunities for social mobility. In many species, individuals adhere to strict caste roles: queens lay eggs and...
Gut bacteria byproduct protects against Salmonella, study finds
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that serves as natural protection against one of the most common intestinal...
The big picture: Mouse memory cells are about experience, not place
When it comes to memory, it's more than just "location, location, location." New research suggests that the brain doesn't store all memories in 'place...
Hurricane Harvey samples saddled with antibiotic-resistant genes
Rice University scientists have released the first results of extensive water sampling in Houston after the epic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. They found...
