New study could lead to next generation of optical tweezers

Optical tweezers are usually used to study proteins, biological molecular motors, DNA and the inner life of cells. They work by using light to...

Maths anxiety?? Your parents and teachers are more responsible for it

Many students claim not to like math. But for some, the issue with math is more than simply disliking algebra or fractions. For some students,...

Scientists blended smartphone to reveal what’s inside

Smartphones, mobile phones with more advanced computing capabilities and connectivity than regular mobile phones, came onto the consumer market in the late 90s. The...

Wonderful!! 83 supermassive black holes found in the early universe

Supermassive black holes, found at the centers of galaxies, can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. While they...

Physicists used a quantum computer to turn back time

Scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in collaboration with scientists from the U.S. and Switzerland have returned the state of a...

Oxford researchers discovered how planthoppers communicate

Planthoppers, any member of several insect families of the order Homoptera, easily recognized because of the hollow, enlarged head extension that may appear luminous....

Your body has internet and now it can’t be hacked

Radiative communication using electro-magnetic (EM) fields amongst the wearable and implantable devices act as the backbone for information exchange around a human body. However,...

Virtual time-lapse photos can capture ultrafast phenomena

Many mysteries of nature are locked up in the world of the very small and the very fast. Such phenomena of interest in nature...

Forgetting requires more brain power than remembering

Memories are not static. They are dynamic constructions of the brain that regularly get updated, modified and reorganized through experience. The brain is constantly...

Study offers clues for why birth control may fail

Since the beginnings of civilization, people have used contraception to prevent pregnancy. Access to effective contraceptives is key to women’s well-being and autonomy –...

Understanding the cosmic origins of heavy elements

Atoms and ions can absorb and emit certain colors of light. By analyzing the detailed colors of inaccessible objects, like high-temperature plasmas in a...

Mammoth moves: frozen cells come to life, but only just

The 28,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, named ‘Yuka’, were found in Siberian permafrost. In a new study by the team of scientists in...