Artist’s view of global teleportation of quantum bits.
Credit: Christoph Hohmann, Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
MPQ scientists achieve long storage times for photonic quantum bits which break the lower bound for direct teleportation in a global quantum network.
Concerning...
The naked HIV capsid, left, would be quickly detected and eliminated from the cell, but a host protein, cyclophilin A, in red in the image on the right, binds to the capsid and enables it to transit through the...
Sediment cores were collected from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica using the German research vessel RV Polarstern.
Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey
Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS)...
Evidence from ancient volcanic deposits suggests that lunar magma contained substantial amounts of water, bolstering the idea that the moon's interior is water-rich.
Credit: Olga Prilipko Huber
A new study of satellite data finds that numerous volcanic deposits distributed across the...
Cave city in volcanic rocks of uplifted Central Anatolian plateau.
Credit: Russell Pysklywec
When renowned University of Toronto (U of T) geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson cemented concepts in the emerging field of plate tectonics in the 1960s, he revolutionized the study...
Green florescent proteins are responsible for the bioluminescence in sea jellies.
Credit: © Glebstock / Fotolia
Nearly 75 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger wondered if the mysterious world of quantum mechanics played a role in biology. A recent finding...
Treatment with a genome editing agent can preserve sound-detecting bristles in the inner ear of mice with genetic deafness (white box, left). Without the treatment, these bristles disappear (white box, right).
Credit: Gao et al. /Nature 2017
Using molecular scissors wrapped...
Enjoying nature. Credit: The University of Queensland
People who visit parks for 30 minutes or more each week are much less likely to have high blood pressure or poor mental health than those who don't, according to new research by...
White-headed capuchin in Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica.
Credit: © nicksen / Fotolia
Rhesus macaques and capuchin monkeys can find a stable solution when playing a competitive game in which one opponent always does better than the other, but only...
These are cardiomyocytes, green, proliferating in a mouse heart after gel injection.
Credit: University of Pennsylvania
In mammals, including humans, the cells that contract the heart muscle and enable it to beat do not regenerate after injury. After a heart attack,...
MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes and can produce a precursor to methane.
Credit: David Born
Industrial and agricultural activities produce large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global...
