Month: October 2014

A qubit’s environment, usually viewed as a threat to coherence, here serves as an aid…

By combining data from two high-energy accelerators, nuclear scientists have refined the measurement of a…

A mechanism that promotes the progression of medulloblastoma, the most common brain tumor found in…

How can we tell when someone has fallen asleep? To answer this question, scientists have…

Yeast are commonly used to transform corn and other plant materials into biofuels such as…

A new map of the world’s seafloor has been created. Twice as accurate as the…

Scientists have observed an exotic particle that behaves simultaneously like matter and antimatter, a feat…

Zoonosis — transmission of infections from other vertebrates to humans — causes regular and sometimes…

A new study into how cheetahs burn energy suggests that human activity, rather than larger…

A study of 99 teens hospitalized out of concern about suicide risk found that a…