Variations in seafloor create freak ocean waves

Researchers have found that abrupt variations in the seafloor can cause dangerous ocean waves known as…

Simulating meteorite impacts in the lab

Researchers have simulated meteorite impacts in the lab and followed the resulting structural changes in two…

Simulations of quantum transport: Universal spreading laws confirmed

A novel toolbox developed to implement ultrafast simulations of quantum transport has allowed the achievement of…

The delicate balance of treating growing but brittle bones

Turning off a bone receptor protein could potentially treat osteoporosis in children without affecting bone growth,…

How plants cope with iron deficiency

Researchers have discovered a new switch that plants use to control their responses to iron deficiency,

When mucus can be key to treating colon and airway diseases

Researchers have identified proteins that control mucous production and suggest clues to treating colon and airway…

How predatory plankton created modern ecosystems after ‘Snowball Earth’

Around 635 to 720 million years ago, Earth was twice almost completely covered by ice. The…

Lettuce show you how to restore oil-soaked soil

Engineers have fine-tuned a method to restore oil-soaked soil to fertility while eliminating toxic hydrocarbons.

Optimized binding cavity

The impressively high conversion rates of natural enzymes partly result from increasing the catalytic activity of…

Supercomputing helps study of two-dimensional materials

High-performance computing helps researchers understand experiments for observing real-time motion of lithium atoms in bi-layer graphene,…