Creating two-dimentional materials large enough to use in electronics is a challenge despite huge effort but…
PIA23200: Herschel Crater – False Color
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Colorful solution to a chemical industry bottleneck
The nanoscale water channels that nature has evolved to rapidly shuttle water molecules into and out…
Does artificial intelligence deserve the same ethical protections we give to animals?
In the HBO show Westworld, robots designed to display emotion, feel pain, and die like humans…
Design work on ‘brain’ of world’s largest radio telescope completed
An international group of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has finished designing the 'brain'…
Antarctic biodiversity hotspots exist wherever penguins and seals poop
Scientists have found that on the desolate Antarctic peninsula, nitrogen-rich poop from colonies of penguins and…
Ancient DNA suggests that some Northern Europeans got their languages from Siberia
Most Europeans descend from a combination of European hunter-gatherers, Anatolian early farmers, and Steppe herders. But…
Machine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance
Most antibiotics work by interfering with critical functions such as DNA replication or construction of the…
Researchers discover ‘daywake,’ a siesta-suppressing gene
Rutgers researchers have identified a siesta-suppressing gene in fruit flies, which sheds light on the biology…
Smart drug design to prevent malaria treatment resistance
Malaria treatment resistance could be avoided by studying how resistance evolves during drug development, according to…