Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Study maps the human side of flood risk
When heavy rain hits a city, knowing where water will accumulate is only part of the picture. Who lives in the affected buildings? How might flooding disrupt th...
Counting magnetic flux quanta offers new way to measure photon numbers
Researchers at AIST have directly observed magnetic flux quanta generated in a superconductor by photon absorption and demonstrated a new principle of photon de...
'It's pretty toxic… but just a little, I want to be like that': What young men think of manosphere content
Masculinity content promises young men self-optimization and success, but often delivers health harms, risk-taking, unattainable standards, gender stereotypes a...
Scientists demonstrate AI-designed enzyme for drug synthesis
The new RFD4-Proteina unified generative model for protein design—created by the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) in collaboration with NVIDIA—uses advanced A...
Chemically modified sugars enable direct nanostructure formation
Researchers at AIST have demonstrated the synthesis of nanoporous carbonaceous materials and carbonaceous materials with layered nanostructures through a simple...
Designing better adsorbents to remove PFAS from water
A review by Tohoku University researchers identifies key molecular features that could guide the development of more effective materials for removing PFAS from...
Plain silicon grating reveals a hidden 'twist' in light from electron beams
In 1953, two physicists showed that an electron beam skimming past a grating emits light whose color depends only on the electron's speed and the grating's spac...
Elections are more predictable than they look
As politics in America become more polarized and each voting cycle seems more fraught than the last, a common narrative in the media is that each election is un...
Bacteria reinvent their weapons through selection, chance and gene swapping
Many of the most potent antibiotics originate from bacteria. A large proportion belong to a class of compounds known as nonribosomal peptides (NRP). They are pr...
New marker panel and free web tool help track stem cells as they develop
How can the identity of pluripotent stem cells be determined more reliably during their differentiation? Researchers from the IUF—Leibniz Research Institute for...
Can we stop antibiotic resistance from ruining promising drugs before they reach patients?
What if we could predict early in drug development which antibiotics bacteria are most likely to become resistant to? In a review published in Nature Reviews Mi...
Everyday Mylar turned into a promising insulator for lunar habitats
Establishing a long-term presence on the moon will require solving challenges that are easy to overlook on Earth. Lunar temperatures, for instance, can vary fro...