Disrupting crystalline order to restore superfluidity

What if you could disrupt the crystalline order of quantum matter so that the superfluid could…

Tropical moths in the mountains are larger

Researchers have measured more than 19,000 tropical moths from 1,100 species to find out whether their…

Building a better battery layer by layer

Scientists are now closer to a thin, high-capacity lithium-ion battery that could open the gates to…

Irrigating vegetables with wastewater in African cities may spread disease

Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be…

A new way to create molecules for drug development

Chemists have developed a new and improved way to generate molecules that can enable the design…

Shedding light on gene variants and their connections to health and disease

NIH's Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) and ClinVar programs are addressing a major barrier to incorporating genomic…

How the grid cell system of the brain maps mental spaces

How exactly the grid cell system works in the human brain, and in particular with which…

World’s fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

Researchers have developed what they call T-CUP: the world's fastest camera, capable of capturing ten trillion…

‘Vampire burial’ reveals efforts to prevent child’s return from grave

Archaeologists found the remains of a 10-year-old child with a stone inserted into his or her…

Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modeling

A new large-scale hydroeconomic model will allow researchers to study water systems across whole continents, looking…