High Carrier Mobility in Cubic Boron Arsenide Offers Promise for Next-Gen Electronics
A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies.
Health issues and loss, social isolation and mental health problems – the pandemic has had a drastic effect on our society.
Humans make decisions based on various sensory information which is integrated into a holistic percept by the brain.
Nerve cells regulate and routinely refresh the collection of calcium channels that enable them to send messages across circuit connections.
Researchers have developed a biodegradable system based on silk to replace microplastics added to agricultural products, paints, and cosmetics.
Single-shot spectroscopy techniques provide researchers with a new understanding of a mysterious light-driven process.
“Interpretability methods” seek to shed light on how machine-learning models make predictions, but researchers say to proceed with caution.
Researchers have found a material that can perform much better than silicon. The next step is finding practical and economic ways to make it.
With FabO, PhD student Dishita Turakhia wants to empower students to learn digital fabrication by making video game objects and characters come alive.
A new technique could improve the precision of atomic clocks and of quantum sensors for detecting dark matter or gravitational waves.
New results from researchers at MIT reveal an unexpected feature of atomic nuclei when a “magic” number of neutrons is reached.
Study suggests automatically starting benefits at the outset of a recession would remove uncertainty for workers.
Large study of existing research shows incremental improvement in patient outcomes and productivity, without big employment changes.
Studying speakers of 45 languages, neuroscientists found similar patterns of brain activation and language selectivity.
An international team of scientists has analyzed archive data for powerful cosmic explosions from the deaths of stars and found a new way to measure distances in the distant universe.
A study published July 19 in the journal eLife brings new hope for HIV treatments.
It’s hard to imagine life on Earth without mammals.
Replacing an entrenched method in scientific research is difficult, even when the method is problematic. Such is the case with shifting from research studies based on the null hypothesis to a more realistic method of estimation.
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have found that people may have a tendency to form friendships with individuals who have a similar body odor.