A combined team of researchers from the University of Geneva and the University of Tampere has…
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A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
In recent years, scientists have developed many strains of engineered bacteria that can be used as…
Glass nanopore pulls DNA like spaghetti through a needle
DNA sequencing has become so common, few realize how hard it is to even extract a…
Ancient atmospheric oxygen sleuthing with ocean chromium
Found in jewelry, car parts, pigments, and industrial chemical reactions, the metal chromium and its compounds…
Droughts longer, rainfall more erratic over the last 50 years in most of the West
Dry periods between rainstorms have become longer and annual rainfall has become more erratic across most…
Gamma-ray emission detected from the supernova remnant G272.2-3.2
Using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have detected significant GeV gamma-ray emission from a…
Exploring comet thermal history: Burnt-out comet covered with talcum powder
The world’s first ground-based observations of the bare nucleus of a comet nearing the end of…
New computing algorithms expand the boundaries of a quantum future
Quantum computing promises to harness the strange properties of quantum mechanics in machines that will outperform…
Doritos, duckies and disembodied feet: How tragedy and luck reveals the ocean's hidden highways
The grisly discovery in February of a disembodied foot on a New South Wales beach was…
Raindrops also keep fallin' on exoplanets
Researchers found that raindrops are remarkably similar across different planetary environments, even planets as drastically different…