Physicists in Australia have programmed a quantum computer half a world away to make, or at least simulate, a record-size time crystal—a system of quantum particles that locks into a perpetual cycle … [+5000 chars]
The moon is about to get walloped by three tonnes of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several tractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash into the far side of the… [+5051 chars]
Two huge black holes are locked together by gravity as they inevitably spiral towards a collision, researchers have found in a new study. Researchers in a new study have spotted two supermassive bla… [+3694 chars]
The twin galaxies NGC 4496A and NGC 4496B. ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Boeker, B. Holwerda, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL/DECam, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, SDSS Acknowledgement: R. Colombari These galaxi… [+2881 chars]
The evolutionary relationships among grassesincluding important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcanehave been clarified in a new molecular study of the grass family tree. Having a clear … [+5388 chars]
One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes to the wrong section of a host's genome, creating the possibility th… [+4779 chars]
A photo of the "mineral flower" alongside other diagenetic features on the surface of Mars captured by NASA's Curiosity rover on Feb. 25. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA's Curiosity rove… [+3173 chars]
The way that mechanisms and organismal features affect evolvability can be classified into three categories. Each one contributes to evolvability in a different way. This can be compared with the pro… [+5470 chars]
Scientists have discovered that a human receptor protein has the ability to detect individual amino acids in exactly the same way that bacteria do. The finding could lead to enhancements of drugs de… [+5026 chars]
The way that mechanisms and organismal features affect evolvability can be classified into three categories. Each one contributes to evolvability in a different way. This can be compared with the pro… [+5470 chars]
When did populations of Homo sapiens first arrive in China and what happened when they encountered the Denisovans or Neanderthals who lived there? A new study in Nature by an international team of re… [+6322 chars]
A gigantic sunspot the size of the Earth has been spotted in the atmosphere of the sun, providing solar scientists with fresh insight into activity on our star. The National Science Foundation's Ino… [+10215 chars]
