Engineered microbes found to repel mosquitoes

Engineered microbes found to repel mosquitoes

Genetically-engineered human skin bacteria can make mice less attractive to mosquitoes for 11 days. Mosquitoes transmit a host of deadly diseases, including malaria, West Nile, dengue, yellow fever, and Zika. Female mosquitoes on the hunt for a blood meal tune into scents released by skin microbes that live on their targets. Genetically-engineered human skin bacteria can…

Read More
High-performance computing and quantum chemistry advances drug discovery

High-performance computing and quantum chemistry advances drug discovery

Led by University of Melbourne theoretician and HPC expert Associate Professor Giuseppe Barca, a research team has achieved the first quantum simulation of biological systems at a scale necessary to accurately model drug performance. Led by University of Melbourne theoretician and HPC expert Associate Professor Giuseppe Barca, a research team has achieved the first quantum simulation…

Read More
Newly discovered sheets of nanoscale ‘cubes’ found to be efficient catalysts

Newly discovered sheets of nanoscale ‘cubes’ found to be efficient catalysts

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created sheets of transition metal chalcogenide “cubes” connected by chlorine atoms. While sheets of atoms have been widely studied, e.g. graphene, the team’s work breaks new ground by using clusters instead. The research is published in the journal Advanced Materials. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created sheets of transition…

Read More
Cryomodule assembly technicians rev up Jefferson Lab’s electron-beam racetrack

Cryomodule assembly technicians rev up Jefferson Lab’s electron-beam racetrack

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the underground Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) more closely resembles a racetrack than it does a racecar. As a DOE Office of Science user facility, CEBAF includes a particle accelerator that enables the research of more than 1,900 nuclear physicists worldwide. At the U.S….

Read More
Bright prospects for engineering quantum light

Bright prospects for engineering quantum light

Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum internet? Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum internet? Optics & Photonics Quantum Physics Phys.org – latest science and technology news…

Read More
New collaborative research generates lessons for more adaptive lake management

New collaborative research generates lessons for more adaptive lake management

“Sometimes the crazy ideas lead to watershed improvements.” That was a key takeaway from research conducted by Utah State University, published in the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. “Sometimes the crazy ideas lead to watershed improvements.” That was a key takeaway from research conducted by Utah State University, published…

Read More
Operation Ice Camp yields treasure trove of Arctic data

Operation Ice Camp yields treasure trove of Arctic data

Early in 2024, inside the Arctic Circle—thousands of miles from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) campus in Monterey—a small team of students and faculty undertook a critical scientific research expedition, working with the Undersea Warfighting Development Center’s Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) at the biennial Operation Ice Camp. Early in 2024, inside the Arctic Circle—thousands of miles…

Read More