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Hair-width LEDs could eventually replace lasers
LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generat...
Prussian blue goes from pigment to purification
The deep, murky pigment known as Prussian blue put the "blue" in traditional blueprints, colored Hokusai's "Great Wave off Kanagawa" and today is used...
Scientists isolate climatic fingerprints of wildfires and volcanic eruptions
Volcanoes and wildfires can inject millions of tons of gases and aerosol particles into the air, affecting temperatures on a global scale. But picking...
For thousands of years, solar eclipses have been associated with the fate of rulers
The moon crossed the sun's path on February 17, causing what is known as an annular solar eclipse. The sun was not covered completely, but the moon bl...
Are one in 200 men really related to Genghis Khan? Maybe not, according to a new study
In present day Kazakhstan, both local folklore and genetic evidence found buried in royal tombs have shone a light on the region's ties to Genghis Kha...
Earliest evidence of indigo-dyed textiles and single-needle knitting discovered in Bronze Age Anatolia
A research team led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Maner from Koç University's Department of Archaeology and History of Art has uncovered remarkable...
Mirror image pheromones help beetles 'swipe right' to find mates
There are many ways to communicate with prospective romantic partners. If you are a Japanese scarab beetle, it's a matter of distinguishing left from ...
Exoplanet Researcher and Renowned Scientist Who Helped Find Water on Distant Planet Shot Dead Near LA
Carl Grillmair, a renowned Caltech scientist who discovered water on a distant planet, was fatally shot at his Los Angeles-area home. Authorities arre...
A hidden reason inner ear cells die—and what it means for preventing hearing loss
Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty molecules across cell membr...
How tuberculosis bacteria use a 'stealth' mechanism to evade the immune system
Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, a discovery that could le...
A low-cost microscope to study living cells in zero gravity
As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now,...
Sometimes less is more: Messier nanoparticles may actually deliver drugs more effectively than tightly packed ones
The tiny fatty capsules that deliver COVID-19 mRNA vaccines into billions of arms may work better when they're a little disorganized. That's the surpr...
How your body senses cold—and why menthol feels cool
When you step outside on a winter morning or pop a mint into your mouth, a tiny molecular sensor in your body springs into action, alerting your brain...
3D method can accurately measure gravity in wide binary stars, as demonstrated by pilot study
Since the third Gaia data release in 2022, wide binary stars with separation greater than several thousand astronomical units have been intensely inve...
Renowned scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA - The Guardian
Renowned scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA The GuardianCaltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch of his rural ...
New insights into how bacteria control DNA synthesis open the door to next generation antimicrobials
Ribonucleotide reductases (RNR) are indispensable enzymes that convert ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides (dNTPs), the precursors to make up DNA....
Small but mighty microplate reader could transform NASA research
A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station after launching with NASA's S...
Nasa targets early March to send humans back around the Moon - BBC
Nasa targets early March to send humans back around the Moon BBCNASA Begins Artemis II Launch Pad Ops After Successful Fuel Test NASA (.gov)NASA condu...
Can a chatbot be a co-author? AI helps crack a long-stalled gluon amplitude proof
Like many scientists, theoretical physicist Andrew Strominger was unimpressed with early attempts at probing ChatGPT, receiving clever-sounding answer...
NASA report blasts Boeing for Starliner mission that left astronauts stranded in space
First manned mission for the space taxi almost ended in a 'really terrible day'...