Engineers have shown that a widely used method of detecting single photons can also count the presence of at least four photons at a time. The researchers say…
Our brain never rests completely: Even in situations without noticeable external input thousands of neurons are firing in different parts of the brain, a…
In order to reach their full potential, today’s quantum computer prototypes have to meet specific criteria: First, they have to be made bigger, which means…
Since 2016, German and Spanish researchers, among them scientists from the University of Göttingen, have been hunting for exoplanets with the “Carmenes”…
Professor Klaus Scheffler, physicist at the University of Tübingen, Germany, received funding for innovative science from the Federal Ministry of Education and…
The amount of computer processing power needed for a robot to sense a gust of wind, using tiny hair-like metal probes imbedded on its wings, adjust its flight…
Nanotechnologists are using DNA, the genetic material present in living organisms, as well as its multifunctional cousin RNA, as the raw material in efforts to…
In fact, the first ornithological inventory in the region was only in 1996, when a team of researchers from the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural…
The replicability of results from scientific studies has become a major source of concern in the research community, particularly in the social sciences and…
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have made a discovery with potential human health impacts in a…
New computational strategies reported this week in Science might help realize the promise of peptide-based drugs. Peptides are similar to protein molecules,…
Getting accurate measurements of how much stars weigh not only plays a crucial role in understanding how stars are born, evolve and die, but it is also…
A 60-year-old mystery about the source of energetic, potentially damaging particles in Earth's radiation belts has been solved using data from a shoebox-sized…
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet locks away enough water to raise sea level an estimated 53 meters (174 feet), more than any other ice sheet on the planet. It's…
The waviness of a coated film represents an important criterion in visual assessment of the coat quality. Improper levelling can lead to a wavy surface…
Photonics experts from around the world will make their annual pilgrimage to San Francisco in late January. Their destination is SPIE Photonics West, a…
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