Neutral particles help create fast-moving plasma spicules... Read more »

Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics... Read more »

Many-body problem solved for colliding condensates... Read more »

Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics... Read more »

Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics... Read more »

Magnetic materials can be functionalized through a thoroughly unlikely method, report researchers: by adding amounts of the virtually non-magnetic element scandium to a gadolinium-germanium alloy.... Read more »

Exposure to ozone in the environment puts individuals with high levels of genetic variation at an even higher risk for developing autism than would be expected just by adding the two risk factors together, a new analysis shows. The study is the first to look at the combined effects of... Read more »

Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach — even if it’s off — suggests new research.... Read more »

Toxins produced by three different species of fungus growing indoors on wallpaper may become aerosolized, and easily inhaled. The findings likely have implications for 'sick building syndrome.... Read more »

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.... Read more »

(University of Texas at Dallas) Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are getting more out of the sweat they've put into their work on a wearable diagnostic tool that measures three diabetes-related compounds in microscopic amounts of perspiration. In a study published recently in Nature Scientific Reports, the... Read more »

(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) The US could slash its energy use by the equivalent of what is currently used by 12 to 15 million Americans if commercial buildings fully used energy-efficiency controls nationwide.... Read more »

(Goethe University Frankfurt) The European Union is funding three new projects -- Innovative Training Networks (ITN) within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Programme -- for structured doctoral training at Goethe University Frankfurt.... Read more »

(Biophysical Society) The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards given at the 'Single-Cell Biophysics: Measurement, Modulation, and Modeling,' meeting held June 17-20 in Taipei, Taiwan. The purpose of the Society's thematic meetings is to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to discuss... Read more »

(University of California - Riverside) In the world of electronics, where the quest is always for smaller and faster units with infinite battery life, topological insulators (TI) have tantalizing potential.In a paper published today in 'Science Advances,' Jing Shi, a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside and colleagues... Read more »

The space agency does not have a replacement in the works to take over their vital role of relaying communications -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

A new book captures the shocking, surprising and stunning life within the Pacific -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

Genetic sequencing of spinal fluid hailed as an advance over standard procedures for diagnosing brain infections -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

The device will use artificial neurons and synapses to improve self-driving vehicle and drone performance  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

Drawn and etched with algorithms, Greg Dunn’s masterpiece is unique in more ways than one -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »