Category: Technology

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid […]

How can data be processed at lightning speed, or electricity conducted without loss? To achieve […]

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their […]

The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our interactions, but threatens human dignity on […]

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the […]

Where did the moon’s magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever […]

A research team led by Nanjing University has introduced a transparent, colorless, and unidirectional solar […]

Researchers Shinjiro Takano, Yuya Hamasaki, and Tatsuya Tsukuda of the University of Tokyo have successfully […]

The PET-alternative PDCA is biodegradable and has superior physical properties. A Kobe University team of […]

Researchers from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have been able to see the […]

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located […]

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily […]

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung […]

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using […]

An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier […]

More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore […]

NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes […]

In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding […]

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe […]

When genetic testing reveals a rare DNA mutation, doctors and patients are frequently left in […]

An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has spotted one of the brightest […]

Quantum networks are often described as the future of the internet — but instead of […]

While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that […]

For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely rare, […]

Clues about how worlds like Earth may have formed have been found buried at the […]

Precise control of light focus is essential for applications ranging from microscopy and laser surgery […]

An internationally joint research group between Singapore and Japan has unveiled a blueprint for arranging […]

A research team from the University of Basel, Switzerland, has developed a new molecule modeled […]

The highest-resolution images of a solar flare captured at the H-alpha wavelength (656.28 nm) may […]

The ATLAS Collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson […]

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have created a novel pathway into […]

A collaborative team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of […]

Optical microscopy is a key technique for understanding dynamic biological processes in cells, but observing […]

Physicists have developed a breakthrough concept in quantum encryption that makes private communication more secure […]

Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our solar system formed from a huge disk of gas […]

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation […]

To build a large-scale quantum computer that works, scientists and engineers need to overcome the […]

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of […]

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu […]

A look into the throat of an active galaxy reveals a ring-shaped magnetic field that […]

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly observed magnetic reconnection in the Sun’s atmosphere for the […]

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved […]

A research team at the Politecnico di Milano has developed an innovative single-atom catalyst capable […]

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be […]

Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere will change the way geomagnetic storms […]

In a new study led by Oxford University’s Department of Chemistry, chemists have demonstrated the […]

For the first time in more than thirty years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton […]

Quantum dots – semiconductor nanostructures that can emit single photons on demand – are considered […]

In 2024, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire […]

‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the […]

Found using the MIRI instrument on NASA’s Webb telescope, which was managed by JPL through […]

A public-private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton […]

A University of Colorado Denver engineer is on the cusp of giving scientists a new […]

Serendipitously and for the first time, an international research team led by scientists at the […]

With over 75% of professionals using AI in their daily work, writing and editing messages […]

The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft […]

A scene from a star-forming factory shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of […]

Most of us find it difficult to grasp the quantum world: According to Heisenberg’s uncertainty […]

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a […]

Using one of the most detailed sets of observations ever of a galaxy cluster 700 […]

Researchers have for the first time isolated a compound that could open new doors in […]

Astronomers have observed an explosion in space that is pushing back against and influencing the […]

Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that “all life depends on sunlight.” In […]

In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is […]

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in […]

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers […]

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between […]

NASA’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a […]

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety […]

Following a successful launch on July 30, the NISAR satellite will orbit Earth for at […]

Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope […]

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet’s orbital decay, confirming it is spiralling towards […]

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was […]

Society has long struggled with petroleum-derived plastic pollution, and awareness of microplastics’ detrimental effects on […]

Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a […]

MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in […]

Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist – one that is different […]

Experts say quantum computing is the future of computers. Unlike conventional computers, quantum computers leverage […]

Immersing in virtual reality (VR) nature scenes helped relieve symptoms that are often seen in […]

Electrochemical cells – or batteries, as a well-known example – are complex technologies that combine […]

As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate […]

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is tough on electronics. Situated inside a 17-mile-long tunnel that […]

A team of UC Merced researchers has shown that tiny artificial cells can accurately keep […]

Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than […]

Recently, Professor Dong Eon Kim from POSTECH’s Department of Physics and Max Planck Korea-POSTECH Initiative […]

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in […]

A study by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration […]

In an era where manipulated videos can spread disinformation, bully people, and incite harm, UC […]

Researchers investigating atomic-scale phenomena impacting next-generation electronic and quantum devices have captured the first microscopy […]

Precision cancer treatment on a larger scale is moving closer after researchers have developed an […]

New research shows that metasurfaces could be used as strong linear quantum optical networks This […]

The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is […]

On July 8, 2025, physicists from Aalto University in Finland published a transmon qubit coherence […]

Imagine the concrete in our homes and bridges not only withstanding the ravages of time […]

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of […]

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope […]

Radioactive decay is a fundamental process in nature by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses […]

Scientists at Rice University and University of Houston have developed an innovative, scalable approach to […]

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form […]

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has […]

Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for […]

A research team led by Prof. Mingtai Wang at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science […]

A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals […]

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever […]

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that allows “self-driving laboratories” to collect at least 10 […]

Crystals are known far and wide for their beauty and elegance. But even though they […]

Imagine trying to wear a left-handed glove on your right hand: it doesn’t fit because […]

Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as […]

Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel method for generating ultrahigh magnetic […]

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever […]

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which […]

For this ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week, we gaze upon the field of stars that […]

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of […]

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a […]

A new kind of cosmic object could help solve one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: […]

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured […]

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the […]

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds — […]

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been […]

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece […]

The rapid rise in AI applications has placed increasingly heavy demands on our energy infrastructure. […]

The international team, led by Dr. Marc Buckley from the Hereon Institute of Coastal Ocean […]

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first […]

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make […]

Ultra-intense lasers can accelerate electrons to near-light speeds within a single oscillation (or ‘wave cycle’) […]

When a drummer plays a drum, she sets the drumhead into vibration by hitting it. […]

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law […]

Natural crystals fascinate with their vibrant colors, their nearly flawless appearance and their manifold symmetrical […]

The Mamyshev oscillator (MO) is a type of fiber laser capable of producing high-energy laser […]

University of Sydney researchers have harnessed human-made lightning to develop a more efficient method of […]

Researchers from Penn and Arizona State University pinpoint a lone five-particle package (a 5-plet) that […]

Quantum computers still face a major hurdle on their pathway to practical use cases: their […]

In the vast vacuum of space, Earth-bound limitations no longer apply. And that’s exactly where […]

Using nuclear magnetic resonance, researchers at ETH Zurich have studied the atomic environments of single […]

A new AI model is much better than doctors at identifying patients likely to experience […]

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end […]

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor […]

Quantum computers have the potential to speed up computation, help design new medicines, break codes, […]

Previously described as playing astronomical ‘spot the difference,’ Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare […]

Signs of planet formation may appear earlier than expected around still-forming baby stars, according to […]

Many galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are characterized by a flat, extended, rotating stellar […]

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images […]

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, […]

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles — a ‘mini halo’ — surrounding […]

Optical biosensors use light waves as a probe to detect molecules, and are essential for […]

Scientists from TU Delft (The Netherlands) have observed quantum spin currents in graphene for the […]

Fatty liver disease, caused by the accumulation of fat in the liver, is estimated to […]

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in […]

For decades, quantum computers that perform calculations millions of times faster than conventional computers have […]

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. […]

Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings […]

Quantum computers can solve extraordinarily complex problems, unlocking new possibilities in fields such as drug […]

Mass General Brigham researchers have developed a new AI tool in collaboration with the United […]

As artificial intelligence reshapes workplaces worldwide, a new study provides early evidence suggesting AI exposure […]

The chemical reaction to produce hydrogen from water is several times more effective when using […]

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first […]

A team of researchers at Rice University have discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly […]

Colorado State University researchers have published a paper in Science that describes a new and […]

MIT researchers have designed a compact, low-power receiver for 5G-compatible smart devices that is about […]

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, the world urgently needs clean and […]

Researchers can now observe the phonon dynamics and wave propagation in self-assembly of nanomaterials with […]

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 […]

No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an […]

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy […]

Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic […]

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way […]

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better […]

The Apollo astronauts didn’t know what they’d find when they explored the surface of the […]

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter […]

An international team of astronomers has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic simulations […]

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi […]

A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement […]

In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud […]

Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in […]

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and […]

A Danish-German research collaboration with participation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) aims to develop new […]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, […]

Solar power is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States, propelled by climate […]

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only […]

Local weather alerts are familiar warnings for potentially dangerous conditions, but an alert that puts […]

Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy […]

In the Mission: Impossible films, superspy Ethan Hunt — played by Tom Cruise — gets […]

Each year, more than 1.2 billion smartphones are produced globally. The production of electronic devices […]

One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most […]

Using advanced computational modelling, a research team led by the University of Oxford, working in […]

Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these […]

Unlike birds, which navigate unknown environments with remarkable speed and agility, drones typically rely on […]

Hailed as one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, transistors are integral components […]

A new type of mRNA vaccine is more scalable and adaptable to continuously evolving viruses […]

Nitrates in the atmosphere reduce air quality and play an important role in climate change. […]

A new study by Emory University researchers, published Thursday in Environmental Science & Technology, found […]

The effects of artificial intelligence on adolescents are nuanced and complex, according to a report […]

Decarbonizing Australia’s economy and protecting the country’s most critical natural resources are both possible but […]

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of […]

Lenses are the most widely used optical devices. Camera lens or objectives, for example, produce […]

Between upgrades and breakdowns to cellphones, tablets, laptops, and appliances, so many electronics are getting […]

As the world shifts toward sustainable energy sources, “green hydrogen” — hydrogen produced without emitting […]

We typically spend 80% of our time indoors, where the quality of the air we […]