A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the…
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10,000 times faster calculations of many-body quantum dynamics possible
How an electron behaves in an atom, or how it moves in a solid, can be…
Exploring a genome's 3-D organization through a social network lens
Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an algorithm used to study social networks, such…
Huge stores of Arctic sea ice likely contributed to past climate cooling
In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic…
Researchers show what drives a novel, ordered assembly of alternating peptides
A team of researchers has verified that it is possible to engineer two-layered nanofibers consisting of…
Long-lasting and precise dosing of medication thanks to an oil-hydrogel mixture
Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active agents can be not only precisely…
Pill-sized 'heater' could increase accessibility in diagnosing infectious disease
Researchers at the University of Toronto Engineering have developed a tiny “heater”—about the size of a…
DNA from ancient packrat nests helps unpack Earth's past
New work shows how using next-generation DNA sequencing on ancient packrat middens—nests made out of plant…
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world…
The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of approximately five million…