Sleep, wake, repeat: How do plants work on different time zones?

It’s widely understood that humans have a circadian clock. When we travel long distances, things get…

Sponges collect penguin, seal, and fish DNA from the water they filter

Just like humans leave DNA in the places we inhabit, water-dwelling animals leave DNA behind in…

Study: Underrepresented faculty play an uneven role in advancing diversity and inclusion

Increasing the diversity of scientists is a priority for many universities and professional societies. Diverse teams…

Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrodinger's cat (and finally save it)

Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger’s famous cat, the symbol of…

Sweet! How C. difficile toxin A enters intestinal cells

Clostridiodes difficile infection has become a leading cause of severe, sometimes fatal diarrheal illness. It flourishes…

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world's river basins at risk

Nearly one-fifth of the world’s population lives in a stressed water basin where the next climate…

Heart of lonesome galaxy is brimming with dark matter

Isolated for billions of years, a galaxy with more dark matter packed into its core than…

Precision calibration empowers largest solar telescope

An article published in the SPIE publication Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), “Polarization…

Ultrafast metal-ion batteries based on new organic cathode material have been developed

Researchers from Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology, IPCP RAS and D.I. Mendeleev University of…

Scientists stack algorithms to improve predictions of yield-boosting crop traits

Hyperspectral data comprises the full light spectrum; this dataset of continuous spectral information has many applications…