Crumpling reduces rigidity in an otherwise stiff material, making it less prone to catastrophic failure.
New open-source software simulates river and runoff resources.
New measurements offer data vital to projecting plant response to environmental changes.
Non-destructive technique identifies key variations in Alaskan soils, quickly providing insights into carbon levels.
New approach offers data across species, sites, and canopies, providing insights into carbon uptake by forests.
The magnetic noise caused by adsorbed oxygen molecules is “eating at” the phase stability of quantum bits, mitigating the noise is vital for future quantum computers.
Water passes through human-made straws faster than the “gold standard” protein, allowing us to filter seawater.
An electric field switches the conductivity on and off in atomic-scale channels, which could allow for upgrades at will.
A revolutionary material harbors magnetism and massless electrons that travel near the speed of light—for future ultrasensitive, high-efficiency electronics and sensors.
Machine learning and neural networks are the foundation of artificial intelligence and image recognition, but now they offer a bridge to see and recognize exotic insulating phases in quantum materials.
Observed atomic dynamics helps explain bizarre flow without friction that has been puzzling scientists for decades.
Electrons are forced to the edge of the road on a thin sheet of tungsten ditelluride.
