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Researchers Demonstrate Error Correction in a Silicon Qubit System

Researchers from RIKEN in Japan have achieved a major step toward large-scale quantum computing by demonstrating error correction in a three-qubit silicon-based quantum computing system.

Miniaturized Lab-On-A-Chip for Real-Time Chemical Analysis of Liquids

A fingertip-sized chip replaces bulky laboratory equipment. An infrared sensor has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna) that analyses the content of liquids within the fraction of a second.

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Signs of Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions at RHIC

Suppression of a telltale sign of quark-gluon interactions presented as evidence of multiple scatterings and gluon recombination in dense walls of gluons

SU(N) Matter Is About 3 Billion Times Colder Than Deep Space

Universe’s coldest fermions open portal to high-symmetry quantum realm

Bound By Light

Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

‘Naturally Insulating’ Material Emits Pulses of Superfluorescent Light at Room Temperature

Researchers looking to synthesize a brighter and more stable nanoparticle for optical applications found that their creation instead exhibited a more surprising property

Changes to Florida's Climate Threaten Oyster Reefs, Usf Researchers Warn

With temperatures rising globally, cold weather extremes and freezes in Florida are diminishing

Individual Risk-Factor Data Could Help Predict the Next Ebola Outbreak, New Study Shows

Researchers confirm a relationship between social, economic and demographic factors and the propensity for individuals to engage in behaviors that expose them to Ebola spillover.

Life at Close Quarters

Larvae with extremely inflated trunks, fossilized in amber, are giving LMU zoologists insights into the evolution and lifestyle of early lacewings.

Virginia Tech and Zimbabwean Paleontology Teams Lead Discovery and Naming of Africa’s Oldest Known Dinosaur

A Virginia Tech graduate student found and unearthed the fossil with other paleontologists during two digs in Zimbabwe in 2017 and 2019.

How the Brain Generates Rhythmic Behavior

MIT neuroscientists have identified an oscillatory circuit that controls the rhythmic movement of mouse whiskers.

Global Fish Stocks Can’t Rebuild If Nothing Done to Halt Climate Change and Overfishing, New Study Suggests

Global fish stocks will not be able to recover to sustainable levels without strong actions to mitigate climate change, a new study has projected.

Giant Roo Relic Found in PNG

Palaeontologists from Flinders University in South Australia have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea.

Resolving the Evolutionary History of the Closest Algal Relatives of Land Plants

Scientists use genomic data to resolve the phylogeny of zygnematophyte algae and pinpoint several emergences of multicellularity in the closest known relatives of terrestrial plants / publication in ‘Current Biology’

Corals Pass Mutations Acquired During Their Lifetimes to Offspring

Researchers document for the first time that corals can pass mutations acquired during their lifetimes to their offspring, providing increased genetic diversity for potential evolutionary adaptation

Push, Pull or Swirl: The Many Movements of Cilia

Cilia are tiny, hair-like structures on cells throughout our bodies that beat rhythmically to serve a variety of functions when they are working properly, including circulating cerebrospinal fluid in brains and transporting eggs in fallopian tubes.

Microbial Communities Stay Healthy by Swapping Knowledge

High levels of horizontal gene transfer could help researchers engineer useful microbiomes independent of unstable population dynamics

Lost Islands Cited in Welsh Folklore and Poetry Are Plausible, New Study of Coastal Geography and a Medieval Map Suggests

A Welsh tradition dating to the medieval period of a landscape lost to the sea is plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed.

Motion of DNA Linked to Its Damage Response, Ability to Repair Itself

A multidisciplinary team of Indiana University researchers have discovered that the motion of chromatin, the material that DNA is made of, can help facilitate effective repair of DNA damage in the human nucleus -- a finding that could lead to improved cancer diagnosis and treatment.