Engineers develop room temperature, two-dimensional platform for quantum technology

Researchers have now demonstrated a new hardware platform based on isolated electron spins in a two-dimensional…

Puzzling sizes of extremely light calcium isotopes

Researchers have measured for the first time the nuclei of three protein-rich calcium isotopes.

Chirality of Weyl fermions

Quasiparticles that behave like massless fermions, known as Weyl fermions, have been in recent years at…

Toward automated animal identification in wildlife research

A new program automatically detects regions of interest within images, alleviating a serious bottleneck in processing…

Why children struggle with the ‘cocktail party effect’

Researchers have clarified the development of the ability to attend to a speaker in a noisy…

Learning a second alphabet for a first language

A part of the brain that maps letters to sounds can acquire a second, visually distinct…

Re-establishing oyster beds to maximize their ecological benefits

Researchers have developed a mapping tool that identifies sites for re-establishing oyster reefs that maximize their…

Aquaculture does little, if anything, to conserve wild fisheries

New research finds that aquaculture, or fish farming, does not help conserve wild fisheries.

Grocery-store based nutrition education improves eating habits

Hypertension affects over 60 million adults in the United States and less than half have their…

Do we have an epidemic? Enhancing disease surveillance using a health information exchange

While disease surveillance has shifted toward greater use of electronically transmitted information to decrease the reporting…