'Andreev chemistry' on a nanowire: Researchers generate superconducting pair states separated by grown barriers

Researchers at the University of Basel and Lund University have generated superconducting pair states of electrons…

Climate scientists use data from Hurricane Maria to test social vulnerability assessment tool

Nearly six years have passed since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. The historic storm,…

Biological origami at molecular level: Cytosolic interactome protects against protein unfolding

Human cells are protecting their proteins from unfolding and aggregating. That’s what biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and…

Viewpoint: The oil industry has succumbed to a dangerous new climate denialism

If we have not been warned of the dangers of climate change this summer, we never…

Research team identifies human odorant receptor for 'horse stable' odor, with implications for food testing

Para-cresol is an aromatic compound with a strong horse stable-like odor. It contributes to the off-flavor…

Scientists uncover a surprising connection between number theory and evolutionary genetics

Number theory, the study of the properties of positive integers, is perhaps the purest form of…

Scientists develop method to predict the spread of armed conflicts

Around the world, political violence increased by 27% last year, affecting 1.7 billion people. The numbers…

Mud could have made meandering rivers long before plants arrived

Geologists have long thought that meandering rivers, with their gently swooping banks, are a geologically recent…

Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

A team of scientists led by the University of Oxford have achieved a significant breakthrough in…

Using sound waves to image nanostructures

The potential of an ultrafast form of transmission electron microscopy to measure sound waves in nanostructures…