Leo Wilson 
A strong light pulse in the terahertz range separates charged luminous trions into individual electrons and neutral excitons. Credit: Giuseppe Meneghini Extremely thin materials consisting of just a few atomic layers promise applications for electronics and quantum technologies. An international team led by TU Dresden has now made remarkable progress with an experiment conducted at … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Just hours before New York City mayor Eric Adams was hit with a federal indictment, a split within the New York Democratic Party had already … Read more
Washington State University scientists successfully tested a new way to produce sustainable jet fuel from lignin-based agricultural waste. Published in the journal Fuel Processing Technology, the team’s research demonstrated a continuous process that directly converts lignin polymers, one of the chief components of plant cells, into a form of jet fuel that could help improve … Read more
Electrically tunable nonlinear polaritonic metasurface for THG. Credit: Light: Science & Applications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01517-y A recent study has unveiled a transformative nonlinear optical metasurface technology. This new technology, characterized by structures smaller than the wavelength of light, paves the way for significant advancements in next-generation communication technologies, including quantum light sources and medical diagnostic … Read more
During the Age of Sail, ships circled the globe on voyages of discovery and trade. That era ended in the 1800s, when coal-fired steam engines began to replace wind power. Now we may be entering a new age of sail—but this time in space. Reversing history, engines and fuel could be replaced by sails on … Read more
Dilara Irem Sancar | Anadolu | Getty Images The OPEC+ alliance is once more cracking down on group compliance with oil output cuts, as it presses ahead with a three-pronged plan of formal and voluntary production trims. Two OPEC+ delegates, who could only comment anonymously because of the sensitivity of the talks, told CNBC that … Read more
Maggie Smith: Harry Potter actor’s most iconic scene as Professor McGonagall Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Harry Potter and Downton Abbey fans have paid tribute to British … Read more
Pregnant women who do not get enough sleep may be at higher risk of having children with neurodevelopmental delays, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Short sleep duration (SSD) is defined as sleeping less than seven hours per night. Pregnant woman may have trouble sleeping due … Read more
Stepwise assembly of the 20S proteasome is mediated by multiple chaperone interactions. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52513-0 Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have developed a clearer picture of how crucial machinery in the human cell’s recycling process for obsolete and misshapen proteins—known as proteasomes—are formed. “Proteasomes are absolutely essential for health,” said Jianhua Zhao, … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Two Just Stop Oil activists have been jailed after pouring soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at the National … Read more
