An international team of physicists from Amherst College and Aalto University has created the Shankar skyrmion, a quasiparticle consisting of a knotted configuration of atomic magnetic moments, or spins. Theoretical physicists predicted the existence of the Shankar skyrmion more than four decades ago,
Read MoreStudy indicates that age 25 would be better than younger ages for a single HIV screening test among those without symptoms Summary: A new study suggests that the most beneficial age for a one-time screening HIV test of the general population
Read MoreA preliminary clinical trial finds that the personalized therapy improves survival rates and has no severe side-effects. Ovarian cancer is a particularly hard-to-treat disease. It’s often diagnosed late, and even after surgery and chemotherapy, around 85 percent of patients relapse
Read MoreSouthwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-Moon system. Their work shows that an impact
Read MoreDr Molly Grace, NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow in the Oxford University Department of Zoology, discusses the potential impact of IUCN Green Species List, a framework for a standard way of measuring conservation success. A project that she and the team
Read MoreDefine an international doctrine for cyberspace skirmishes before they escalate into conventional warfare, urge Mariarosaria Taddeo and Luciano Floridi. Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, sophisticated and destructive. Each day in 2017, the United States suffered, on average, more than 4,000
Read MoreThere's something sorely lacking in the scientific fields of astronomy and astrophysics. As it turns out, we're still lacking logical consistency in how we measure what goes on in space. Writing for the journal Astronomy & Geophysics, retired physics professor Keith Atkin
Read MoreOn 27 August 1883, Earth made the loudest noise in recorded history. Emanating from the island of Krakatoa, which sits between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, the sound could be heard clearly almost 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles)
Read MoreIn chaos theory, they say the infinitesimal flapping of a butterfly's wings can hypothetically cascade into a fierce tornado. Now, scientists have demonstrated how some of the smallest creatures in the ocean could have the same outsized impact under the waves –
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