After the May 2020 death of George Floyd, large demonstrations exploded across the United States. Though…
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Social media polarizes politics for a different reason than you might think
Social media are polarizing not because they isolate us with likeminded others, as often thought, but…
Super-resolution quantification of single small extracellular vesicles
It has been commonly accepted that tumorigenesis and cancer progression constitute a multistep process. The most…
An insect pest acquires multiple plant genes
The silverleaf whitefly is a major crop pest in the tropics and subtropics. After studying its…
Measuring Zak phase in room-temperature atoms
In topological insulators, global geometric phases of energy bands determine the existence of unidirectionally propagating edge…
Developing an organic transmembrane device to host and monitor 3-D cell cultures
Researchers have used 3D cell culture models in the past decade to translate molecular targets during…
DNA reveals the past and future of coral reefs
New DNA techniques are being used to understand how coral reacted to the end of the…
Black hole burps up shredded star
In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to…
Geoscientists develop a technique that reveals the health of coral reefs from space
How healthy are coral reefs? And how are they responding to climate change? After more than…
Black hole discovered firing jets at neighboring galaxy
With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole…