Credit: Jain and Dorfman WASHINGTON D.C., April 11, 2017 -- While DNA sequencing provides precise, nucleotide-by-nucleotide genomic information, genome mapping provides a bigger-picture perspective..
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2017 -- To really take off, advanced quantum information processing will require getting a better (experimental) grasp of an essential phenomenon...
Credit: Hermann Detz, TU Vienna The first fully functional microprocessor logic devices based on few-atom-thick layered materials have been demonstrated by researchers from the Graphene...
Credit: Courtesy The University of Queensland Humans have a lot in common with the humble sea sponge, according to research that changes the way we...
Credit: By kind permission of Dr Brett Lewis Research by the University of Kent has revealed how tiny amounts of DNA (eDNA) released into water...
Credit: Based on data from VLT/ESO. Great Cold Spot comparable in scale to famous Great Red Spot (24,000 km west-east and 12,000 km north-south) The...
When, in the foreseeable future, a tabular iceberg nearly seven times the size of Berlin breaks off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic,...
Credit: TU Wien, Marco Furchi Two-dimensional materials, or 2D materials for short, are extremely versatile, although - or often more precisely because - they are...
A "self-heating" boron catalyst that makes particularly efficient use of sunlight to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) serves as a light harvester, photothermal converter, hydrogen generator,...
Credit: Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University The experimental realization of ultrathin graphene - which earned two scientists from Cambridge the Nobel Prize in physics in 2010...
What distinguishes the HLF from standard scientific conferences is the unique informal atmosphere that inspires a blend of acute scientific discussions and social interactions among...
Seven new projects will explore the potentially transformative opportunities offered by Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in fields such as energy, healthcare, banking and policy-making. The...
Credit: Paul Selvaggio With the Global Coral Restoration Project, SECORE International, the California Academy of Sciences and The Nature Conservancy seal their commitment to help...
BROOKLYN, New York - No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and...
(University of Bristol) A team of volcanologists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge have collected measurements from directly within volcanic clouds, together...
