From left to right: Xavier Trepat, Pau Guillamat and Marino Arroyo. Xavier Trepat is an ICREA Research Professor at IBEC, principal investigator of the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group, and ...

Cage-covered bulkhead lights are referred to in the design of this thick sconce light by British lighting brand Tala. The Firth wall light has a fluted edge created during the glass blowing process, ...

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National Quilt Day falls in March during Women’s History Month. It was established in 1991 by the National Quilting Association to pay homage to quilters across the country. While other art forms ...

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Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...

For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art quantum computers have around 1,000 qubits. Columbia physicists Sebastian ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and other biological networks look the way they do. The prevailing theory held ...

In the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists face a formidable challenge: Real tissues are often both strong and stretchable, and they vary in shape ...