Newswise — Yesterday marked the release of a highly anticipated report from the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), unveiling an exciting new roadmap for unlocking the secrets of the…
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Archaeologists find 22 mummified burials in Peru
A Polish-Peruvian team of archaeologists have uncovered 22 mummified burials in Barranca, Peru. The discovery was made on the Cerro Colorado hill, where the researchers unearthed the burials in one…
Advisory Panel Issues Field-Defining Recommendations for U.S. Government Investments in Particle Physics Research
The following news release on the 2023 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report is based on one issued today by the American Physical Society (APS) with added content specific to the U.S. Department…
US approves sickle cell breakthrough with gene editing therapy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The United States on Friday approved a breakthrough medicine that uses revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR to treat the debilitating blood disorder sickle cell disease. More…
UK probes Microsoft-OpenAI partnership
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Britain’s competition watchdog announced on Friday that it was looking into whether a partnership between US tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence developer OpenAI resembles a…
A superconducting junction made from a single 2D material promises to harness strange new physics
A schematic image showing a Josephson junction (central section) made from a single layer of tungsten telluride. The red spheres are electron with spin up, while the blue ones have…
New research paints a dynamic picture of how we respond to high or low oxygen levels
Pulsed SILAM reveals variations of protein half-lives across organs. Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4884 It only takes holding your breath for slightly too long to understand that too little…
Hubble captures a cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can resolve individual stars in the densely-packed cores of globular clusters like NGC 2210. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini This striking Hubble Space Telescope image…
Diamond quantum sensors measure neuron activity
Schematic of the sensor operation (not to scale), where green laser light directed to subsurface colour centres (NV) in the diamond enables recording of magnetic field arising from compound action…