Ecosystem Biodiversity
Variation within species, among species and across ecosystems, together with the interactions that sustain ecological function.
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Quantum Computing
Computation that controls quantum states to process information using interference, entanglement and measurement.
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Protein Folding
The process by which an amino-acid chain acquires the three-dimensional structure needed for biological function.
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Dark Matter
A name for the unseen gravitating component inferred from galaxies, clusters and the large-scale structure of the universe.
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Antibiotic Resistance
The inherited ability of microorganisms to survive or grow at drug concentrations that would normally inhibit them.
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Prime Numbers
Positive integers greater than one whose only positive divisors are one and themselves.
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Mitochondrial ATP Synthesis
How electron transport and a proton gradient power ATP production across the inner mitochondrial membrane.
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Artificial Neural Networks
Layered computational models that learn distributed representations by adjusting weighted connections from data.
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Plate Tectonics
The framework that explains the motion of Earth's lithospheric plates and the concentration of geological activity at their boundaries.
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Gravitational Waves
Ripples in spacetime produced by accelerating mass distributions and detected through their effect on distance.
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CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
A programmable molecular system that can cut DNA near a sequence selected by a guide RNA.
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Quantum Entanglement
How composite quantum systems exhibit correlations that cannot be reproduced by classical local models.
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