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For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed…

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, publishing in the latest issue of Nature Communications,…

A black sedan cruises silently down a quiet suburban road, driver humming Christmas carols quietly while the car’s autopilot handles…

Poison ivy ranks among the most medically problematic plants. Up to 50 million people worldwide suffer annually from rashes caused…

Plasmonics are special optical phenomena that are understood as interactions between light and matter and possess diverse shapes, material compositions,…

Rice University scientists have discovered a first-of-its-kind material, a 3D crystalline metal in which quantum correlations and the geometry of…

It’s oh-so-easy to be absolutely mesmerized by these spiral galaxies. Follow their clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars,…

Global warming continues to pose a threat to human society and the ecological systems, and carbon dioxide accounts for the…

The world’s reliance on concrete, the second most consumed material after water, is leading to an environmental and resource crisis,…

Scientists from Hiroshima University undertook a study of dragonfly wings in order to better understand the relationship between a corrugated…

Our sensory systems are highly adaptable. A person who cannot see after turning off a light in the night slowly…

Recording the activity of large populations of single neurons in the brain over long periods of time is crucial to…

If life ever existed on Mars, the Perseverance rover’s verification of lake sediments at the base of the Jezero crater…

For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn human-made bonds between silicon and carbon that…

The hurrying pace of societal electrification is encouraging from a climate perspective. But the transition away from fossil fuels toward…

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University have developed a…

Add a dash of creamer to your morning coffee, and clouds of white liquid will swirl around your cup. But…

More than 2 billion people, approximately a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to clean drinking water. A new,…

Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that gained significant attention when the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission collected samples and returned them to…

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a new, more environmentally friendly way to create conductive inks for use in…

New research by the University of Stirling could lead to major improvements in marine oil spill cleanup processes. The innovative…

Temperature-controlled, reversible shifting of molecular gear motion in a solid crystal opens new possibilities for material design. Gears are an…

Scientists working on biological design should focus on the idiosyncrasies of biological systems over optimisation, according to new research. In…

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is significantly…

The researchers headed by Dr. Phillip Ozimek from the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, recruited 1,230 people…

Tiny particles such as ice crystals or ash particles tend to oscillate as they settle through the atmosphere. In their…

Scientists have created the world’s first working nanoscale electromotor, according to research published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The science…

MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from its environment. Because it requires no battery…

The quantum ground state of an acoustic wave of a certain frequency can be reached by completely cooling the system….

Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it…

An innovative study at Marshall University published in ArthroplastyToday explores the use of robotic-assisted joint replacement in revision knee scenarios,…

This month, a group of stroke survivors in B.C. will test a new technology designed to aid their recovery, and…

Just like a book can’t be judged by its cover, a material can’t always be judged by its surface. But,…

Textbook models will need to be re-drawn after a team of researchers found that water molecules at the surface of…

Researchers have developed a platform that combines automated experiments with AI to predict how chemicals will react with one another,…

The equations that describe physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system — temperature or chemical potential, for…

Using artificial intelligence to scan surgery patients’ medical records for signs of risky drinking might help spot those whose alcohol…

To combat viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, synthetic biology offers new technological approaches whose performance is being validated in experiments….

A study published in Nature Nanotechnology presents an innovative graphene-based neurotechnology with the potential for a transformative impact in neuroscience…

A Rutgers biophysical chemist and his brother, a political scientist on the West Coast, have joined intellectual forces, realizing a…

Researchers have taken the first steps toward finding liquid solvents that may someday help extract critical building materials from lunar…

Astronomers have made the rare discovery of a small, cold exoplanet and its massive outer companion — shedding light on…

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University have developed a way to convert…

Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a biorobotic heart that beats like a real one,…

In an effort to make the internet more accessible for people with disabilities, researchers at The Ohio State University have…

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller…

Using a new technology developed at MIT, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling nanoparticle sensors and then…

Professor Bumjoon Kim’s research team in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering succeeded in implementing a stretchable organic solar…

With a split-second muscle contraction, the greater blue-ringed octopus can change the size and color of the namesake patterns on…

Data Assimilation (DA) is an important mathematical method for predicting turbulent flows for weather forecasting. However, the origins of the…

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet…

Perovskite nanosheets show distinctive characteristics with significant applications in science and technology. In a recent study, researchers from Korea and…

As the world moves away from gas towards electricity as a greener power source, the to-do list goes beyond cars….

In the quest to understand the potential for life beyond Earth, researchers are widening their search to encompass not only…

A research team at Osaka Metropolitan University has fabricated a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor using diamond, which of all natural…

Lights could soon use the full color suite of perfectly efficient organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, that last tens of…

Research groups around the world are developing technologies to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into raw materials for industrial applications. Most…

A new technology developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego has the potential to make the extended…

Species throughout the animal kingdom feature vital interfaces between the outermost layers of their bodies and the environment. Intricate microscopic…

With human bias removed, organizations looking to improve performance by harnessing digital technology can expect changes to how information is…

New research into large language models shows that they repeat conspiracy theories, harmful stereotypes, and other forms of misinformation. In…

Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even…

In less time than it will take you to read this article, an artificial intelligence-driven system was able to autonomously…

Taking inspiration from the human brain, researchers have developed a new synaptic transistor capable of higher-level thinking. Designed by researchers…

Like a celestial beacon, distant quasars make the brightest light in the universe. They emit more light than our entire…

The North Sea seafloor is dotted with thousands of crater-like depressions in the sediment known as pockmarks. There are probably…

In November 2023, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed a massive cluster of galaxies named MACS J0138.0-2155. Through an effect…

This photo of Saturn was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was…

A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand how it formed and the origins of our…

Analysis of organic compounds — calledpolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — extracted from the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite has foundthat…

A team of researchers has analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore the origin of the present-day cosmic structures,…

A whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth….

While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern…

Air conditioning and heating systems have contributed considerably to reducing mortality linked to extreme temperatures in Spain, according to a…

A winter wonderland calls to mind piles of fluffy, glistening snow. But to reach the ground, snowflakes are swept into…

A group of researchers has created a simple and inexpensive means to visualize the atomic state of hydrogen. Details of…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on…

The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile…

An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers from the Center for Cognition and Sociality and the Data Science Group within the…

During a chemical reaction, molecules gain energy until they reach what’s known as the transition state — a point of…

Two galaxies in the early universe, which contain extremely productive star factories, have been studied by a team of scientists…

Drones flying along miles of rivers in the steep, mountainous terrain of central Taiwan and mapping the rock properties have…

Supernovae-stellar explosions as bright as an entire galaxy-have fascinated us since time immemorial. Yet, there are more hydrogen-poor supernovae than…

Not all discoveries turn out to be actual new discoveries. This was the case for the extremely red objects (EROs)…

For most of us, the countless bright spots in the nighttime sky all seem to be stars. But in fact,…

Quantum information scientists are always on the hunt for winning combinations of materials, materials that can be manipulated at the…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 3D images of the human tongue have revealed that the surface of our tongues are unique…

Scientists have solved a decades-long puzzle and unveiled a near unbreakable substance that could rival diamond, as the hardest material…

Manatees are endangered species volatile to the environment. Because of their voracious appetites, they often spend up to eight hours…

In our everyday classical world, what you see is what you get. A ball is just a ball, and when…

Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia…

Solar and wind power may be free, renewable fuels, but they also depend on natural processes that humans cannot control….

The use of generative AI in literature search suggests the possibility of efficiently collecting a vast amount of medical information,…