Astronomers inspect two galactic open clusters

Using the Tubitak National Observatory (TUG) and ESA’s Gaia satellite, Turkish astronomers have inspected Berkeley 68…

Seagrass crucial to stemming the tide of coastal erosion

The sea devours large tracts of land when storms wash sand out to sea from the…

A scalable quantum memory with a lifetime over 2 seconds and integrated error detection

Quantum memory devices can store data as quantum states instead of binary states, as classical computer…

How to fire projectiles through materials without breaking anything

When charged particles are shot through ultra-thin layers of material, sometimes spectacular micro-explosions occur, and sometimes…

Team synthesizes multifunctional nanoparticle for diagnosis and treatment of glioma

A Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) collaborative research team has synthesized a nanoparticle named TRZD that…

Tracking Earth's many new lakes and their emerging role in carbon emissions

The number of lakes on our planet has increased substantially in recent decades, according to a…

The first potent COQ8 inhibitor targets ubiquinone biosynthesis

A new collaborative study from the University of Eastern Finland, Washington University in St. Louis, University…

Controlling nematode worm behavior using two different light-sensitive proteins called opsins

Is it possible to control an animal’s or a cell’s behavior using light? In recent years,…

Diamonds and X-rays open a new window into the Earth's inner core

A collaborative research group has succeeded, for the first time, in measuring the speed of sound…

Researchers construct nanochannels from graphene oxide nanosheets to harvest ocean osmotic energy

When thinking of renewable energy sources, it is often solar or wind that spring to mind…