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Snow algae thrive in high-elevation ice spires, an unlikely oasis for...
High in the Andes Mountains, dagger-shaped ice spires house thriving microbial communities, offering an oasis for life in one of Earth's harshest environments as...
‘Digital alchemy’ to reverse-engineer new materials
In work that upends materials design, researchers have demonstrated with computer simulations that they can design a crystal and work backward to the particle...
Neural nets to simulate molecular motion cast
New work from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Florida is showing that artificial...
Scientists discover the biggest seaweed bloom in the world
Scientists led by the USF College of Marine Science used NASA satellite observations to discover the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world called...
Ultra-small nanoprobes could be a leap forward in high-resolution human-machine interfaces
Machine enhanced humans -- or cyborgs as they are known in science fiction -- could be one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks...
HIV eliminated from the genomes of living animals
In a major collaborative effort, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)...
Portable polarization-sensitive camera could be used in machine vision, autonomous vehicles,...
When the first full-length movie made with the advanced, three-color process of Technicolor premiered in 1935, The New York Times declared "it produced in...
Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees
The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more.
And there's...
New technique could brighten screens and make smartphone batteries last longer
Our future TV and smartphone screens could have double the energy efficiency, thanks to a technique invented by Imperial scientists.
The pixels in many modern...
‘Tsunami’ on a silicon chip: a world first for light waves
A tsunami holds its wave shape over very long distances across the ocean, retaining its power and 'information' far from its source.
In communications science,...
Deep-CEE: The AI deep learning tool helping astronomers explore deep space
Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures in the cosmos, but despite being millions of lightyears across, they can still be hard...
