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Researchers have developed a deep learning-based approach that significantly streamlines the accurate identification and classification of two-dimensional (2D) materials through…

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain…

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of…

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair…

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new research by the Global…

In the race to develop robust perception systems for robots, one persistent challenge has been operating in bad weather and…

A team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers at Mount Sinai trained a deep learning pose-recognition algorithm on video feeds of…

Much of modern life depends on the coding of information onto means of delivering it. A common method is to…

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have achieved a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation…

Researchers today (Nov. 8, 2024) are releasing the flagship dataset from an ambitious study of biomarkers and environmental factors that…

LMU researchers have developed a strategy that enables biosensors to be easily adapted for a wide range of applications. Biosensors…

Hydrogen-powered planes are set to take wing around the world in the future. To make this possible, engineers have to…

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists are developing a formula for success — by studying how a new type of battery…

Chemists synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a revolutionary strategy of functionalizing normally inert carbon-hydrogen (C-H). Science published the…

Robots are supposed to do boring or unpleasant jobs for us. However, tedious tasks such as cleaning the bathroom are…

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a new way to detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. This…

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that complex calculations run on…

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which extent a piece of music…

Large language models can do impressive things, like write poetry or generate viable computer programs, even though these models are…

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but still…they both have a lot of work to do to catch…

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are warning that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity in the fields of genetics and medicine can…

Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What causes one variable — be…

Biomedical engineers from the University of Melbourne have invented a 3D printing system, or bioprinter, capable of fabricating structures that…

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these…

Cause and effect. We understand this concept from an early age. Tug on a pull toy’s string, and the toy…

People with stronger autistic trails showed distinct exploration patterns and higher levels of persistence in a computer game, ultimately resulting…

In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor…

Macrophage cells are the immune system’s frontline soldiers, early on the scene to protect the body from foreign invaders. These…

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims to collect millions to billions of high-quality, highly contextualized vocalizations in order to understand…

In a recent study, an international research team with significant involvement from MedUni Vienna has investigated how nanoplastic particles deposited…

A monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually type out the complete…

By applying an electric field, the movement of microswimmers can be manipulated. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics…

Rice University researchers have developed an electrochemical reactor that has the potential to drastically reduce energy consumption for direct air…

The transition to renewable energy requires efficient methods for storing large amounts of electricity. Researchers at the Technical University of…

Published in JAMA Network Open, a collaborative team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School, Stanford University, Beth…

Based on joint research with Professor Jaehyuk Lim at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Professor Youngu Lee…

Professor Chiyoung Park of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee) has developed a groundbreaking…

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the…

The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of pure science and also hard…

Researchers from the University of Virginia have made significant strides in the rapidly advancing field of 3D-printed concrete by developing…

The idea of turning the air around us into drinking water is a marvel on its own. And grabbing a…

As renewable energy sources such as wind and solar become more widespread, managing the power grid has become increasingly complex….

A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a…

The opioid epidemic claims more 70,000 lives each year in the U.S., and lifesaving interventions are urgently needed. Although naloxone,…

As its name suggests, ring-shaped “cage molecules” resemble a cage, and it is this three-dimensional structure that makes them significantly…

Caltech scientists have developed a method driven by machine learning that allows them to accurately measure the mass of individual…

Some computing challenges are so big that it’s necessary to go all in. That’s the approach a diverse team of…

A team of researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, the Qatar Environment and…

Chemicals are omnipresent today: they enter our bodies through food, air or the skin. But how do these complex mixtures…

Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key to harness quantum computing for…

The world is rapidly transitioning to renewable power, but there are shortcomings. Solar power falls at night, and wind power…

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as…

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a breakthrough in graph mining with…

Trees are the most abundant natural resource living on Earth’s land masses, and North Carolina State University scientists and engineers…

When an election result is disputed, people who are skeptical about the outcome may be swayed by figures of authority…

A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center….

With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be…

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture — and it doesn’t require specialized rooms, expensive…

Researchers from Japan explore how the domesticated flightless silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), a prominent insect model in olfactory research, uses…

Active electronics — components that can control electrical signals — usually contain semiconductor devices that receive, store, and process information….

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the…

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an…

In pioneering drug development, the new technology that enables the easy and rapid editing of key atoms responsible for drug…

When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a closer look. When magnets draw in physicists, they take…

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth….

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a…

Multimaterial 3D printing enables makers to fabricate customized devices with multiple colors and varied textures. But the process can be…

Hydrogen-burning internal combustion engines offer great promise in the fight against climate change because they are powerful without emitting any…

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, known commonly as PFAS, could take over 40 years to flush out of contaminated groundwater in…

Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150…

A Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two…

Step aside hard, rigid materials. There is a new soft, sustainable electroactive material in town — and it’s poised to…

As tools powered by artificial intelligence increasingly make their way into health care, the latest research from UC Santa Cruz…

Using ammonia is regarded as a promising method of transporting hydrogen. However, an efficient process is also needed to convert…

Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by what astronomers call a…

Environmental phenols are found in a wide range of common consumer products. They include preservatives in packaged foods, parabens in…

Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis…

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a…

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with…

Researchers have developed a way to make one type of plastic material more durable and less likely to shed dangerous…

Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken…

Particles larger than ordinary molecules or atoms yet still small enough to be invisible to the naked eye can give…

For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the…

University of Copenhagen mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex quantum systems, such as molecules….

Remember that old high school chemistry experiment where salt crystals precipitate out of a saltwater solution — or maybe the…

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz which has been used as a gemstone for many centuries and is a…

Researchers have successfully integrated a megahertz-speed optical coherence tomography (MHz-OCT) system into a commercially available neurosurgical microscope and demonstrated its…

Deep-learning models are being used in many fields, from health care diagnostics to financial forecasting. However, these models are so…

For the first time ever, researchers have witnessed — in real time and at the molecular-scale — hydrogen and oxygen…

Like atoms coming together to release their power, fusion researchers worldwide are joining forces to solve the world’s energy crisis….

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects — the most…

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. The results are…

Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care being autografting, which uses the…

Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) uses hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, of data points to train itself to produce realistic and…

By 2100, hospitalizations from diarrheal diseases are predicted to increase in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh as a result…

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one…

The theory of indirect reciprocity holds that people who earn a good reputation by helping others are more likely to…

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black…

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer…

The hype surrounding machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, can make it seem like it is only a matter…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase of 2024. Though far from that cultural spotlight, scientists from agricultural, biological and…

Astronomers from the University of Arizona, along with an international group of researchers, observed the atmosphere of a hot and…

A multi-institutional research team led by Georgia Tech’s Hailong Chen has developed a new, low-cost cathode that could radically improve…

Quasars are the most luminous objects in the Universe and are powered by material accreting onto supermassive black holes at…

The importance of testing for diseases was thrust into the limelight during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us have undergone…

Within the cycling realm, “to Everest” involves riding up and down the same mountain until your ascents total the elevation…

Spintronic devices work with spin textures caused by quantum-physical interactions. A Spanish-German collaboration has now studied graphene-cobalt-iridium heterostructures at BESSY…

A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a computational workflow for analyzing large…

Lasso peptides are natural products made by bacteria. Their unusual lasso shape endows them with remarkable stability, protecting them from…

Using state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies to renovate existing properties and construct new ones could enable Europe’s construction sector to almost…

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io — the most volcanically active location in the solar system…

For the first time, scientists are able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to…

Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed hexagon-shaped robotic components, called modules, that can be snapped together…

A new study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers demonstrates the effectiveness of homemade play putty at reading brain, heart,…

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks…

Thanks to nanoscale devices as small as human cells, researchers can create groundbreaking material properties, leading to smaller, faster, and…

Inspired by the architecture of human bone’s tough outer layer, engineers at Princeton have developed a cement-based material that is…

A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of…

Now, a team of UBC Okanagan researchers believe they have found a way to harness the strengths of both technologies…

Most rechargeable batteries that power portable devices, such as toys, handheld vacuums and e-bikes, use lithium-ion technology. But these batteries…

A groundbreaking study has made it possible to extract much more information from fingerprints as evidence than what is currently…

Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites’ potential has been stymied…

An international team of researchers has found a surprisingly simple relationship between the rates of energy and information transmission across…

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities is providing new insights into how next-generation…

Taking inspiration from enzymes, chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a catalyst to simplify the synthesis of ethers,…

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this…

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, designed, built, and…

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have for the first time succeeded in combining two major research fields…

As Rohit Velankar, now a senior at Fox Chapel Area High School, poured juice into a glass, he could feel…

Bioactive glasses, a filling material which can bond to tissue and improve the strength of bones and teeth, has been…

Maryam Shanechi, the Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the USC Center for Neurotechnology, and…

Researchers from Kyushu University have revealed that a zeolite material called Na-ZSM-5 is effective in improving the chemical conversion of…

A widely used disinfectant worldwide, chloroxylenol, has been associated with eco-toxicological threats in water environments due to its relatively high…

As a rule, GPS indicates our location with an accuracy of just a few meters. But we have all experienced…

Typically, electrons are free agents that can move through most metals in any direction. When they encounter an obstacle, the…

A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory identified and successfully demonstrated a new…

Water contamination by the chemicals used in today’s technology is a rapidly growing problem globally. A recent studyby the U.S….

Researchers at Tohoku University have successfully increased the capacity, lifetime durability, and cost-effectiveness of a capacitor in their pursuit of…

A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater knowledge of the dynamics that…

It’s 7 billion years ago, and the universe’s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky…

Building a robot takes time, technical skill, the right materials — and sometimes, a little fungus. In creating a pair…

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the…

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a world leader in molten salt reactor technology development — and…

A team of scientists has unlocked the potential of 6G communications with a new polarisation multiplexer. Terahertz communications represent the…

Understanding how cells process nutrients and produce energy — collectively known as metabolism — is essential in biology. However, analyzing…

While some microbes can make people sick or spoil food, others are critical for survival. These tiny organisms can also…

Wearable, long-term continuous heart monitors helped identify 52% more cases of atrial fibrillation compared to usual care, but that did…

The invention of a tool capable of unlocking previously impossible organic chemical reactions has opened new pathways in the pharmaceutical…

In order to train more powerful large language models, researchers use vast dataset collections that blend diverse data from thousands…

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully simulated higher-order topological (HOT) lattices with unprecedented accuracy using digital…

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have found a new method to increase…

Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these…

Chemists at the University of Amsterdam have developed a method to furnish a range of molecules with a trifluoromethyl group…

Rice University researchers have developed a smart material that adjusts its transparency with changes in temperature, outperforming similar materials in…

Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space Telescope is finding them not…

Published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, a research team led by the University of Minnesota Medical School evaluated the…

Rare-earth elements are everywhere in modern life, found in everything from the smart device you’re reading this on to the…

Using evolution as a guiding principle, researchers have successfully engineered bacteria-yeast hybrids to perform photosynthetic carbon assimilation, generate cellular energy…

Nothing in science can be achieved or understood without measurement. Today, thanks to advances in quantum sensing, scientists can measure…

For about fifteen years, Kagome materials with their star-shaped structure reminiscent of a Japanese basketry pattern have captivated global research….

A 3D quantum spin liquid has been discovered in the vicinity of a member of the langbeinite family. The material’s…

Scientists for several years have studied the theoretical effectiveness of injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to reflect heat from…

A multi-institutional team of scientists in the United States, led by physicist Peng Wei at the University of California, Riverside,…

A team of researchers at Michigan State University has discovered a set of methods that enabled the first successful CRISPR-based…

When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was…

New research using neural networks, a form of brain-inspired AI, proposes a solution to the tough challenge of modelling the…

As climate change creates hotter, drier conditions, we are seeing longer fire seasons with larger, more frequent wildfires. In recent…

Imagine owning a camera so powerful it can take freeze-frame photographs of a moving electron — an object traveling so…

Who are we? Why are we here? As the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song suggests, we are stardust, the…

This summer’s Western heat waves raise the specter of recent years’ rotating power outages and record-breaking electricity demand in the…

Researchers using Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have identified new details about the size…

Nylon, Teflon, Kevlar. These are just a few familiar polymers — large-molecule chemical compounds — that have changed the world….

NIMS and SoftBank Corp. have jointly developed a model capable of predicting the cycle lives of high-energy-density lithium-metal batteries by…

The dramatic dimming of a light source ~ 860 million light-years away from Earth confirms the accuracy of a detailed…

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel reagent that enhances the precision of drug synthesis. This innovative method, published…

Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have discovered a new type of “whistler,” an electromagnetic wave that carries a substantial…

James Tour’s lab at Rice University has developed a new method known as flash-within-flash Joule heating (FWF) that could transform…

A groundbreaking technology has been unveiled that improves the efficiency of thermoelectric materials, which are key in converting waste heat…

Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international study to determine the origin of the huge piece of…

For the past century since their discovery, superconductors and their mysterious atomic properties have left researchers in awe. These special…

A mathematical framework that builds on the economic theory of hidden-action models provides insight into how the unobservable nature of…

A new brain-computer interface (BCI) developed at UC Davis Health translates brain signals into speech with up to 97% accuracy…

The remarkable affinity of the microbial enzyme iron nitrogenase for the greenhouse gas CO2 makes it promising for future biotechnologies….

University of Missouri scientists are battling against an emerging enemy of human health: nanoplastics. Much smaller in size than the…

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a Southwest Research Institute-led team has confirmed hydroxyl molecules on the surface…

Last year marked Earth’s warmest year on record. A new study finds that some of 2023’s record warmth, nearly 20…

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait…

Solid-state electrolytes have been explored for decades for use in energy storage systems and in the pursuit of solid-state batteries….

A new artificial intelligence model developed by USC researchers and published in Nature Methods can predict how different proteins may…

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well…

Light is an excellent carrier of information used not only for classical communication technologies but also increasingly for quantum applications…

Ever since we learned that the surface of planet Mars is cold and dead, people have wondered if there is…