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Phys.org / Mining the solar system to build a new world
I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing down on Earth. Buried beneath the Hollywood chaos is a genuinely interesting question: What exactly ...
Medical Xpress / Still moments reveal how the brain links distant places during learning
When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and at different times. The neural processes that contribute to linking different meaningful experiences, ...
Phys.org / New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome
An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The newly-discovered manuscript in the National Central ...
Medical Xpress / A gene that keeps intestinal stem cells stable offers insight into how tissues repair themselves
Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, Ph.D., was a postdoctoral scientist at Gladstone Institutes, studying genes. There, he helped discover ...
Phys.org / Water molecules found to actively drive gene transcription process
Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden layer of complexity in how genes are activated, showing that water molecules play a direct and essential role in one of the most fundamental processes in biology: DNA transcription.
Phys.org / Physicists reveal universal speed limit on quantum information scrambling
Theoretical physicists in the US have discovered a "speed limit" on the time taken for quantum information to spread through larger systems. Publishing their results in Physical Review Letters, Amit Vikram and colleagues ...
Phys.org / A flower-like pattern exposes chiral superconductivity's long-sought fingerprint
With a carefully designed experiment and a handful of tin atoms, University of Tennessee, Knoxville's physicists have found a long-sought form of superconductivity, taking one more step toward creating custom quantum materials.
Phys.org / Single X-ray photons reveal hidden light-matter interactions in 50-nanometer double slits
A rainbow reveals with colors what otherwise remains hidden: light is "refracted" by transparent matter, in this case water droplets. This same physical effect underlies many everyday technologies, like LCD screens and broadband ...
Phys.org / Levitated nano-ferromagnet confirms a 160-year-old physical prediction
Ferromagnets, such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, are materials with a strong, spontaneous, and permanent magnetic field. Over 150 years ago, the physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell speculated that under specific ...
Phys.org / Where was your backyard millions of years ago?
An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied in the distant past, ...
Phys.org / Roman cup unearthed in Spain may have been a keepsake representing a soldier's time at the Hadrian Wall
Archaeologists recently analyzed a broken, decorative cup found unexpectedly on a Spanish farm. The cup appears to represent Hadrian's Wall—a place 2,000 miles away—and a time period almost 2,000 years ago. The new study, ...
Medical Xpress / Why this CAR T advance matters: Complete remissions without chemotherapy at doses as low as 250,000 cells/kg
Stem-cell memory T (TSCM) cells are a rare subset of immune cells with the ability to self-renew, persist long term, and mount potent anti-tumor responses. These properties make them an attractive candidate for next-generation ...
