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New Pathway Discovered for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

The finding, by a team led by Princeton physicist Jason Petta, could eventually allow engineers to build quantum computers consisting of millions of quantum…

Life & Chemistry

Salk scientists pinpoint key player in Parkinson's disease neuron loss

By reprogramming skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients with a known genetic mutation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have…

Environmental Conservation

Jordan’s Water Ministry Launches Project Implementation Office

The proposed decentralisation of sanitation and reuse of water is designed to significantly alleviate the issues of water scarcity and groundwater protection…

Environmental Conservation

Leisure Boats Impact Sweden’s West Coast Archipelago

In Sannäs Fjord, a silled fjord to the north of Grebbestad in Bohuslän, researchers from the University of Gothenburg have studied the marine environment in…

Studies and Analyses

Gastric Bypass Surgery: Teenagers Lose Weight Like Adults

A study by Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden found that 81 teenagers lost an average of 96.8 pounds…

Earth Sciences

NASA Watches Extra-Tropical Storm Prapiroon Fade Away

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Extra-tropical Storm Prapiroon…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover Surprising Trends in Galaxy Evolution

“Astronomers thought disk galaxies in the nearby universe had settled into their present form by about 8 billion years ago, with little additional development…

Life & Chemistry

Cholera Discovery Enhances Antibiotic Delivery Methods

Lisa Craig, Christopher Ford and Subramaniapillai Kolappan, SFU researchers in molecular biology and biochemistry, have explained how Vibrio cholerae became a…

Studies and Analyses

Charting Tween Living Habits Across Europe: Key Insights

For a tween life can be both exciting and demanding – and presumably decisive for their future health. This is the starting point for a study designed to chart…

Information Technology

Large Grant Boosts Innovation in Small Satellite Technology

The field of satellite technology is facing an upheaval that has already taken place in the computer industry: The mainframe computers of the 70ies have…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing Local Electric Fields for Improved SERS Intensity

Analysis of the electric fields around nanostructures indicates that they can provide a basic foundation to obtain greater SERS intensity. Professor ZHANG…

Life & Chemistry

Energy-sensing switch discovery could have broad implications for Biology & Medicine

The scientists have found this particular energy-sensing switch in bacterial genes, which could make it a target for a powerful new class of antibiotics. If…

Physics & Astronomy

Fish Defies Physics Law: Insights from Bristol Researchers

However, PhD student Tom Jordan from the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences and his supervisors Professor Julian Partridge and Dr Nicholas Roberts in…

Earth Sciences

Mississippi River Diversion Boosts Louisiana Wetlands Recovery

But the levees have also contributed to the loss of Louisiana's wetlands. By holding in floodwaters, they prevent sediment from flowing into the watershed and…

Earth Sciences

Enhancing Solar Geoengineering: New Approaches Explored

Ideas include increasing the amount of aerosols in the stratosphere, which could scatter incoming solar light away from Earth's surface, or creating…

Studies and Analyses

Intermediate Glucose Control Benefits Neurocritical Care Patients

Complicating the picture, poor glucose control also leads to worse recovery and should be avoided. This study suggests that a strategy to maintain intermediate…

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