World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock

A team of researchers at DESY has reached an important milestone on the road to the…

Mother bats use baby talk to communicate with their pups

When talking to babies, humans slow down their speech, raise their pitch and change the “color”…

A key to cheaper renewable fuels: Keeping iron from rusting

Washington State University researchers have made a key first step in economically converting plant materials to…

A touch of gold sends crystals electric with excitement

A touch of gold—or another noble metal—can change the structure of a crystal and its intrinsic…

Mystery gas discovered near center of Milky Way

An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that’s been shot out from…

Researchers work to ensure accurate decoding in fragile quantum states

When computers share information with one another, the information gets encoded into bits, then decoded back…

A method to perform canonical phase measurements using quantum feedback

Light is known to have a number of fundamental properties, including color, brightness, and direction, most…

We're using microbes to clean up toxic electronic waste – here's how

If you were to stack up all the electronic waste produced annually around the world it…

Oleandrin is a deadly plant poison, not a COVID-19 cure

With COVID-19 cases and deaths rising in the U.S. and globally, identifying new therapies to prevent…

An on-skin durable nanomesh sensor to monitor natural skin motion

Comfortable strain gages can be directly placed on human skin to monitor continuous motion activity with…