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Phys.org / Researchers develop non-destructive spectrometry technique for analyzing fragile archaeological ivory
A research team led by Prof. Wang Zhenyou at the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has developed a microscopic time-gated Raman spectrometer capable of non-destructive, micrometer-scale ...
Phys.org / Error-correction technology to turn quantum computing into real-world power
Ripples spreading across a calm lake after raindrops fall—and the way ripples from different drops overlap and travel outward—is one image that helps us picture how a quantum computer handles information.
Phys.org / Ancient Antarctica reveals a 'one–two punch' behind ice sheet collapse
When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, except through the haziness of humid air. But when it comes to melting ice sheets, rising ocean temperatures ...
Phys.org / Worms as particle sweepers: How simple movement, not intelligence, drives environmental order
When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of Amsterdam, Georgia Tech ...
Phys.org / XRISM gives sharpest-ever glimpse at growth of a rapidly-spinning black hole
Astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever X-ray spectrum of an iconic active galaxy, providing the most accurate, precise view ever obtained of the extreme relativistic effects imprinted onto the spacetime around a supermassive ...
Tech Xplore / New research shows promise of liquids as thermal conductors
Imagine a device that lets you move heat very quickly from one place to another, yet needs no power, no electricity, no pumps and no moving parts. You might think, "Sure, that's what metals like copper or crystals like diamond ...
Medical Xpress / Private equity acquired more than 500 autism centers over the past decade, new study shows
Private equity firms have acquired more than 500 autism therapy centers across the U.S. over the past decade, with nearly 80% of those acquisitions occurring over a four-year span, according to a new study from researchers ...
Dialog / Infrastructure design is the hidden architecture of disaster risk
When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as "once-in-a-century," and heat waves as "record-breaking." While these descriptors may be technically ...
Phys.org / Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record challenges cosmological models
An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasn't supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, far earlier and hotter ...
Phys.org / Science army mobilizes to map US soil microbiome
Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.
Phys.org / Astronomers reveal hidden lives of the early universe's ultramassive galaxies
An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than ...
Medical Xpress / For the first time, a mechanism enabling breast cancer to metastasize to the brain has been deciphered
A large-scale international study, led by researchers from the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University, has uncovered a mechanism that allows breast cancer to send metastases to the brain—a highly ...
