World’s fastest molecular shuttle

A molecular structure with a ring-shaped molecule around an elongated wire-shaped molecule.

Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when the mother is happy

Mothers’ and babies’ brains can work together as a ‘mega-network’ by synchronizing brain waves when they interact.

Accelerating the development of new plant varieties

New methods that will make it significantly faster to produce gene-edited plants.

Degraded soils mean tropical forests may never fully recover from logging

Continually logging and re-growing tropical forests to supply timber is reducing the levels of vital nutrients in the soil, which may limit future forest growth and recovery, a new study suggests. This raises concerns about the long-term sustainability of logging in the tropics.

This brain circuit is responsible for regulating alcohol consumption

Discovery could lead to a better understanding of why some casual drinkers develop an alcohol use disorder.

How blue whales became the biggest animals to ever live?

Feeding strategy strongly influences their size cap, but all whales depend on rich ocean resources to be big.

Maxwell’s electromagnetism extended to smaller scales

A general framework for incorporating and correcting for nonclassical electromagnetic phenomena in nanoscale systems.

This new material can efficiently capture carbon dioxide from wet flue gasses

New material design tops carbon-capture from wet flue gases.

Heat energy can travel through a complete vacuum

Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness

Research has revealed how grape pests sniff the berries

Study investigates how these pests find their target amid a sea of other plants in the landscape.

How the brain produces cognition is finally understood?

Neural activity in rat orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is instead highly structured: single-neuron activity co-varies with an individual variable.

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