ALMA observes dusty site of planet formation

Composite images of PDS 70 in pseudo color. The left panel shows previous ALMA observations at 0.87 mm, and the right panel shows new ALMA observations at 3 mm. The…

Scientists achieve nuclear spin coherence in levitating microparticles

Left: A schematic showing a levitating diamond with embedded nitrogen 14 nuclear spins. Right: The spin energy levels showing their polarization. Credit: Julien Voisin. A new study in Physical Review…

Study reveals vulnerability of metaverse platforms to cyber attacks

Visualization to the paper “The Big Brother’s New Playground: Unmasking the Illusion of Privacy in Web Metaverses from a Malicious User’s Perspective” Credit: CISPA Having access to virtual worlds from…

ICJ climate justice proceedings must recognise links between climate and nature

Climate change is destroying nature and must be stopped – but we should also ensure climate action helps not hinders nature Grethel Aguilar is the Director General of the International…

Response to CEO killing reveals antipathy toward health insurers − but entire patchwork system is to blame for ill feeling

The U.S. health care system leaves much to be desired. It is convoluted, fragmented, complex and confusing. Experts have also raised concerns about quality, and disparities are rampant. And, of…

New immunotherapy platform has increased potential to target cancer cells

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Stanford University have revealed the molecular structure of TRACeR-I, a protein platform for reprogramming immune responses. A better…

Roadmap for the incoming Trump administration: Friend or foe of US agriculture?

President-elect Trump has promised his second administration will move aggressively to deliver relief from regulatory burdens in a number of areas. Though not widely noted in the current media coverage,…

Liver fibrosis and eye disease detection

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden highlights the possibility of screening people with type 2 diabetes for liver damage at the same time as they…

Bringing the power of tabletop precision lasers for quantum science to the chip scale

Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the “coarse” light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser. Credit: Sonia…

‘AI-at-scale’ method accelerates atomistic simulations for scientists

Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Quantum calculations of molecular systems often require extraordinary amounts of computing power; these calculations are typically performed on the world’s largest supercomputers to better understand…