Breakthrough in controlling superposition quantum states
UC Santa Barbara researchers have demonstrated a significant breakthrough in the quantum control of photons. Reported in Nature, their findings…
Tantalizing glimpse of macroscopic quantum effects
The weird laws of quantum mechanics govern how molecules, atoms and smaller particles behave, but quantum phenomena sometimes “leak up”…
Dire outlook for shellfish in a high CO2 world
Shellfish living in the world’s temperate coastal ecosystems are under threat from increasing ocean acidification, says Smithsonian scientist Whitman Miller.…
Earth to get hotter sooner
New modeling on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get this century shows that without rapid…
Marriages fixed with oxytocin
Relationships are hard work and most of us have probably felt at some point that communicating positively with our significant…
Cloud-seeding microorganisms go under the microscope
A new study is the first to yield direct data on how bacteria, fungal spores and plant material influence cloud…
Melting threat from ice sheet overestimated?
The total or partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would not raise global sea levels as high as…
Back to the drawing board for North Atlantic circulation
The conveyor belt paradigm that is used to describe the North Atlantic ocean’s circulation has it that the Gulf Stream-warmed…
Superbugs thriving in wastewater treatment plants
In the first study of its kind, University of Michigan researchers have established that wastewater treatment plants are providing a…
Men and women equal? Not when it comes to the immune system
Men may not have been dealt an equal hand when it comes to immunity. Dr. Maya Saleh, of the Research…
Entanglement of single photon detected across four locations
California Institute of Technology scientists have demonstrated how entanglement in the form of beams of light simultaneously propagating along four…
Modified Newtonian dynamic could do away with dark matter
As modern cosmology comes to rely more and more on “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, there continues to…
Laissez faire use of DDT concerns experts
DDT’s use to combat malaria was endorsed in 2006 by the World Health Organization and the organochlorine pesticide is now…
Mechanism behind caffeine withdrawal revealed
Ever miss your daily cup of coffee and subsequently get a headache and feelings of fatigue? Now, thanks to researchers…
Novel method to induce immunity to chlamydia
Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have designed…