Tracking Carbon From the Ocean Surface to the Dark "Twilight Zone"
Different phytoplankton communities bloom around the Canadian Maritime Provinces and across the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA/Aqua/MODIS composite collected on March 22, 2021
A seaward...
An Uncrackable Combination: Invisible Ink and Artificial Intelligence
Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be...
Robotic arm equipped with a hairbrush helps with brushing tasks and could be an asset in assistive-care settings.
A robotic arm setup is equipped with a sensorized soft brush and aided by a camera...
2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai’i provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help forecast the hazard potential of future eruptions.
Lava fountaining from the most productive eruptive fissure,...
Optical Fiber Could Boost Power of Superconducting Quantum Computers
NIST physicists measured and controlled a superconducting quantum bit (qubit) using light-conducting fiber (indicated by white arrow) instead of metal electrical cables like the 14 shown...
Surpassed only by advanced age and organ transplant as a risk factor, large study shows
Physical inactivity is linked to more severe COVID-19 infection and a heightened risk of dying from the disease, finds a...
Female putty-mosed monkey. Credit: C. Kolopp/WCS
Female putty-nosed monkeys use calls just to recruit males when certain predators are detectedResults suggest that different “dialects” exist among different populations of monkeys
Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s...
NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake.
Mastcam-Z Views ‘Santa Cruz’ on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to...
Magnetoelectric Chips to Power a New Generation of More Efficient Computing Devices
Harnessing the Hum of Fluorescent Lights for More Efficient Computing
The property that makes fluorescent lights buzz could power a new generation of more...
Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconducting metals is nothing but hot electrons after all.
A team of scientists in the Lancaster Physics Department has found new...
Pink Drinks Can Help You Run Faster and Further Compared to Clear Drinks
A new study led by the Center for Nutraceuticals in the University of Westminster shows that pink drinks can help to make...
James Webb Telescope's Golden Mirror Wings Open for the Last Time on Earth
For the last time while it is on Earth, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope opened its iconic primary...
Breaking Heisenberg: Evading the Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Physics
New technique gets around 100-year-old rule of quantum physics for the first time.
The uncertainty principle, first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in the late 1920’s, is a...