Explained: The sugar coating of life
Researchers are working to advance the field of glycoscience, illuminating the essential role of carbohydrates for human health and disease.
Researchers are working to advance the field of glycoscience, illuminating the essential role of carbohydrates for human health and disease.
After a summer of weather extremes, where does the world stand in its goal to stem rising temps?
“Interpretability methods” seek to shed light on how machine-learning models make predictions, but researchers say to proceed with caution.
Many years of research have enabled scientists to quickly synthesize RNA vaccines and deliver them inside cells.
Quantum computers could usher in a golden age of computing power, solving problems intractable on today’s machines.
Concrete is the world’s most consumed construction material. Yet there’s a lot the public doesn’t know about it or its environmental impact.
Professor of nuclear science and engineering Scott Kemp describes the science behind the search for clandestine nuclear sites.
Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as “deep learning” revives 70-year-old idea.
Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration.
Technique enables production of pure, uniform coatings of metals or polymers, even on contoured surfaces.
Better understanding of how surfaces attract or repel water could improve everything from power plants to ketchup bottles.
A simple tool for representing relationships between data, devices or almost anything else has ubiquitous applications in computer science.
When you hear poll results reported with a certain margin of error, that’s only part of the story.
As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.