Researchers at QuSoft and the Institute of Physics have come up with a new method for quantum computing in trapped ions. Under this method, two trapped ions are selected by applying optical tweezers on them and the electric field makes sure that the two ions move together with all the other ions in a crystal. Thus, a quantum gate between the ions can be adopted.

A team of mathematicians and physicists has discovered how ice formations are shaped by external forces, such as water temperature. Its newly published research may offer another means for gauging factors that cause ice to melt.

Scientists at Lancaster University are working with researchers and farmers in Mexico to introduce the public to different types of tomatoes to stop the loss of vital varieties. These tomatoes could hold the key to preserving tomato crops in an ever more challenging climate.

Homogeneity is an important requirement for many samples in the labo­ratory — regardless of whether they are required for analyses or syntheses. Read how you can use a new mixer mill to produce powders with particle sizes down to the nanometer range.

Life science specialists, Amsbio, have made a new strategic investment to enhance the level of support to its sizeable and growing base of customers across the European Union.

Eppendorf recently expanded its centrifuge offering with the acquisition Koki Holdings' centrifuge business, whose products are marketed globally under the brand name Himac.

Polycarbin has launched its ‘Closed-Loop Collection’ which comprises of products that have been remanufactured from recycled laboratory plastic. The move has been carried out to address the problem of ‘single use’ plastics as well as to reduce the need for more carbon-intensive virgin resins thereby creating a low-carbon economy.

When bears and ground squirrels hibernate in winter, they stop eating, lasting until spring simply on the fat reserves they’ve stored up in their bodies. Usually, this sort of prolonged fasting and inactivity would significantly reduce the mass and function of muscle, but hibernators don’t suffer this fate. Why?

Under the intensity of a prolonged pandemic, the world finds an ever-growing and seemingly never-ending waste stream of used surgical masks, plastic face shields, and medical gloves and gowns. Cornell engineers now offer a solution to sustainably reroute the discarded material.

Johannes (Hans) Clevers will succeed William Pao as Head of Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) and become a member of the company’s Corporate Executive Committee. Clevers who is currently a member of Roche’s Board of Directors will step down and make way for a new candidate which is yet to be announced.