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How the world’s chillest bacteria make ice | The Verge
They may be responsible for creating clouds and rain Today, scientists have uncovered how tiny bacteria — nature’s ice machines — create ice crystals. …
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Scientists have pushed water molecules into a whole new state of matter – ScienceAlert
Physicists have managed to squeeze water molecules into a brand new state that doesn’t adhere to the usual laws of solids, liquids, and gases. …
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Scientists perform key step in the water-splitting reaction with 100 percent efficiency – ScienceAlert
If scientists could find a way to cheaply and easily split water into its molecular parts, it would give us access to an …
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Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins | New Scientist
Prion proteins are infamous for their role in mad cow disease, but they also help yeasts form memories. They have now been discovered in …
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Identification of microbial communities using meta-transcriptomics
Understanding and identifying the microbial communities within hosts is a new and innovative area of study with limited knowledge thus far. Due to the …
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Interconnectedness of the galaxies | FlowingData
A group of researchers are studying how all the galaxies in the universe are connected, network-style. Source: Interconnectedness of the galaxies | FlowingData
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Life’s Secrets Sought In A Snowflake | Quanta Magazine
A single genetic change and some clever geometry show how single-celled organisms can band together to form cooperative multicellular entities. Until one or two …
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Researchers have written quantum code on a silicon chip for the first time
For the first time, Australian engineers have demonstrated that they can write and manipulate the quantum version of computer code on a silicon microchip. …
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A new view of the tree of life : Nature Microbiology
An update to the ‘tree of life’ has revealed a dominance of bacterial diversity in many ecosystems and extensive evolution in some branches of …
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New state of water molecule discovered
Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched by any known gas, …
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Physics – Focus: Water Molecule Spreads Out When Caged
Water molecules confined in nanochannels exhibit tunneling behavior that smears out the positions of the hydrogen atoms into a pair of corrugated rings. Tunneling …
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Natural quasicrystal with decagonal symmetry : Scientific Reports
We report the first occurrence of a natural quasicrystal with decagonal symmetry. The quasicrystal, with composition Al71Ni24Fe5, was discovered in the Khatyrka meteorite, a …
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Newfound Bacteria Expand Tree Of Life | Quanta Magazine
A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent, revealing a hidden world all …
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NASA has detected strange signals coming from the gravitational wave source – ScienceAlert
Less than half a second after the first direct evidence of gravitational waves was recorded on 14 September 2015, a very short, faint signal …
