Frenchman savours triumphant barrel crossing of Atlantic ocean

A 72-year-old Frenchman arrived on the Caribbean island of Martinique Thursday to celebrate crossing the Atlantic…

Revealing branching time in single-cell omics data

New single-cell omics technology allows scientists to analyse cell development in ways that were not previously…

Researchers suggest collapsar accretion disks might be source of heaviest elements

A trio of researchers at Columbia University is suggesting that collapsar accretion disks might be the…

An all-optical neural network on a single chip

A team of researchers from the University of Münster, the University of Oxford and the University…

A 49-kilometer-high volcanic ash column rose up over the Mayan civilization

The Ilopango volcano eruption (also known as Tierra Blanca Joven or TBJ) occurred approximately 1,500 years…

Demographic dissimilarity and absenteeism in blue-collar teams

"Diversity" is a central buzzword in business and labour-related vocabulary, functioning as either a mark of…

A way to minimize unexpected base edits to cellular RNA

A team of researchers with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT has found evidence showing…

Location is everything for plant cell differentiation

While the fate of most human cells is determined by their lineage—for example, renal stem cells…

A superior, low-cost catalyst for water-splitting

In a significant step toward large-scale hydrogen production, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)…

Discrete energy levels without confinement – a new quantum trick

Nanostructures can be designed such a way that the quantum confinement allows only certain electron energy…