science
A new material for the battery of the future
Renewable sources of energy such as wind or photovoltaic are intermittent; production peaks do not necessarily follow the demand peaks. Storing green energy is...
Red wine’s resveratrol could help Mars explorers stay strong
Mars is about 9 months from Earth with today's tech, NASA reckons. As the new space race hurtles forward, Harvard researchers are asking: how...
New laws of attraction: Scientists print magnetic liquid droplets
Inventors of centuries past and scientists of today have found ingenious ways to make our lives better with magnets—from the magnetic needle on a...
Win or lose: Rigged card game sheds light on inequality, fairness
Researchers at Cornell University are using a rigged card game to shed light on perceptions of inequality.
After noticing that card game winners attributed the game's outcome to...
Living longer or healthier? Genetic discovery in worms suggests they can...
In a report published today in Nature Communications, a surprising new genetic discovery by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC...
Bottomonium particles don’t go with the flow
A few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was so dense and hot that the quarks and gluons that make...
New measurement of universe’s expansion rate is ‘stuck in the middle’
A team of collaborators from Carnegie and the University of Chicago used red giant stars that were observed by the Hubble Space Telescope to...
Quantum photonics by serendipity
A photonic chip with no less than 128 tunable components proves to be a true computing "Swiss army knife" with a variety of applications....
Two-qubit gate: the speediest quantum operation yet
A group of scientists led by 2018 Australian of the Year Professor Michelle Simmons have achieved the first two-qubit gate between atom qubits in...
Ultrasound-assisted optical imaging to replace endoscopy in breakthrough discovery
Carnegie Mellon University's Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Maysam Chamanzar and ECE Ph.D. student Matteo Giuseppe Scopelliti today published research that...
First-ever visualizations of electrical gating effects on electronic structure
Scientists have visualised the electronic structure in a microelectronic device for the first time, opening up opportunities for finely-tuned high performance electronic devices.
Physicists from...
