Building single-atom qubits under a microscope

Our team at IBM Research made a breakthrough in controlling the quantum behavior of individual atoms,…

Testing the feasibility of the UN Sustainable Development Goals on water and sanitation

A RUDN geographer used an economic model to calculate the costs associated with the accomplishment of…

Dorian left Bahamas coral battered, littered with debris

Mermaid Reef never should have thrived in the shallow curve of ocean just 250 feet off…

Yeast experiments show fit lineages are less tolerant to deleterious mutations

A team of researchers with members from Harvard University and one from the University of California…

Carbon productivity: What if we measured the thing that matters most?

Ask any economist a question, and you will usually get the answer: “productivity.” Click…

A one-step multicatalytic method to enrich racemic mixtures to a single enantiomer

A combined team of researchers from Princeton University and Yale University has developed a multicatalytic technique…

Mountain streams emit a surprising amount of carbon dioxide

Mountains cover 25 percent of the Earth’s surface, and the streams draining these mountains account for…

Greta Thunberg: New beetle named after climate activist

The nelloptodes gretae – named after the teenage climate activist – is less than 1mm long. …

Strange volcanic domes on Venus may be made from hot crystal mush

Venus has a few weird domes that seem to be different from the rest of its…

New VIPER Lunar Rover to Map Water Ice on the Moon

NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the Moon to get a…