Robots are supposed to do boring or unpleasant jobs for us. However, tedious tasks such

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a new way to detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which

Large language models can do impressive things, like write poetry or generate viable computer programs,

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

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are warning that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity in the fields

Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What

Biomedical engineers from the University of Melbourne have invented a 3D printing system, or bioprinter,

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the

Cause and effect. We understand this concept from an early age. Tug on a pull

People with stronger autistic trails showed distinct exploration patterns and higher levels of persistence in

In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist

Macrophage cells are the immune system’s frontline soldiers, early on the scene to protect the

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims to collect millions to billions of high-quality, highly contextualized

In a recent study, an international research team with significant involvement from MedUni Vienna has

A monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would

By applying an electric field, the movement of microswimmers can be manipulated. Scientists from the

Rice University researchers have developed an electrochemical reactor that has the potential to drastically reduce

The transition to renewable energy requires efficient methods for storing large amounts of electricity. Researchers

Published in JAMA Network Open, a collaborative team of researchers from the University of Minnesota

Based on joint research with Professor Jaehyuk Lim at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jeonbuk

Professor Chiyoung Park of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only place other than Earth known to have an

The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of

Researchers from the University of Virginia have made significant strides in the rapidly advancing field

The idea of turning the air around us into drinking water is a marvel on

As renewable energy sources such as wind and solar become more widespread, managing the power

A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains

The opioid epidemic claims more 70,000 lives each year in the U.S., and lifesaving interventions

As its name suggests, ring-shaped “cage molecules” resemble a cage, and it is this three-dimensional

Caltech scientists have developed a method driven by machine learning that allows them to accurately

Some computing challenges are so big that it’s necessary to go all in. That’s the

A team of researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in

Chemicals are omnipresent today: they enter our bodies through food, air or the skin. But

Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key

The world is rapidly transitioning to renewable power, but there are shortcomings. Solar power falls

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a

Trees are the most abundant natural resource living on Earth’s land masses, and North Carolina

When an election result is disputed, people who are skeptical about the outcome may be

A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive

With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture — and it

Researchers from Japan explore how the domesticated flightless silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), a prominent insect

Active electronics — components that can control electrical signals — usually contain semiconductor devices that

A classical way to image nanoscale structures in cells is with high-powered, expensive super-resolution microscopes.

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate

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

In pioneering drug development, the new technology that enables the easy and rapid editing of

When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a closer look. When magnets

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently,

Multimaterial 3D printing enables makers to fabricate customized devices with multiple colors and varied textures.

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, known commonly as PFAS, could take over 40 years to flush

Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow

A Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of

Step aside hard, rigid materials. There is a new soft, sustainable electroactive material in town

As tools powered by artificial intelligence increasingly make their way into health care, the latest

Using ammonia is regarded as a promising method of transporting hydrogen. However, an efficient process

Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded

Environmental phenols are found in a wide range of common consumer products. They include preservatives

Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought,

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found

Researchers have developed a way to make one type of plastic material more durable and

Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when

Particles larger than ordinary molecules or atoms yet still small enough to be invisible to

University of Copenhagen mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex

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

Remember that old high school chemistry experiment where salt crystals precipitate out of a saltwater

Today, entrepreneurship is everywhere, including science. Engineers and scientists often apply their research to a

The genome inside each of our cells is modelled by tension and torsion — due

Researchers have successfully integrated a megahertz-speed optical coherence tomography (MHz-OCT) system into a commercially available

For the first time ever, researchers have witnessed — in real time and at the

Like atoms coming together to release their power, fusion researchers worldwide are joining forces to

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes

Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care

Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) uses hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, of data points to train

By 2100, hospitalizations from diarrheal diseases are predicted to increase in the city of Dhaka

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy

The theory of indirect reciprocity holds that people who earn a good reputation by helping

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

A research team led by Rice University’s James Tour has developed a method to recycle

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase of 2024. Though far from that cultural spotlight,

Achieving carbon neutrality requires the effective use of renewable biomass. In the production of biodiesel,

A multi-institutional research team led by Georgia Tech’s Hailong Chen has developed a new, low-cost

Researchers have created a computer program that can unravel the mysteries of how proteins work

The importance of testing for diseases was thrust into the limelight during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Within the cycling realm, “to Everest” involves riding up and down the same mountain until

Spintronic devices work with spin textures caused by quantum-physical interactions. A Spanish-German collaboration has now

A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a

Lasso peptides are natural products made by bacteria. Their unusual lasso shape endows them with

Using state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies to renovate existing properties and construct new ones could enable

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io — the most volcanically active

Samarium (Sm), a rare earth metal, is important to organic chemists because of the ability

Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed hexagon-shaped robotic components, called modules,

A new study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers demonstrates the effectiveness of homemade play

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The

Thanks to nanoscale devices as small as human cells, researchers can create groundbreaking material properties,

Inspired by the architecture of human bone’s tough outer layer, engineers at Princeton have developed

A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark

Now, a team of UBC Okanagan researchers believe they have found a way to harness

Most rechargeable batteries that power portable devices, such as toys, handheld vacuums and e-bikes, use

A groundbreaking study has made it possible to extract much more information from fingerprints as

Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the

An international team of researchers has found a surprisingly simple relationship between the rates of

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities is providing

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

One of the drawbacks of fitness trackers and other wearable devices is that their batteries

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful

Most atoms are made from positively charged protons, neutral neutrons and negatively charged electrons. Positronium

As Rohit Velankar, now a senior at Fox Chapel Area High School, poured juice into

Bioactive glasses, a filling material which can bond to tissue and improve the strength of

Maryam Shanechi, the Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the

Researchers from Kyushu University have revealed that a zeolite material called Na-ZSM-5 is effective in

A widely used disinfectant worldwide, chloroxylenol, has been associated with eco-toxicological threats in water environments

As a rule, GPS indicates our location with an accuracy of just a few meters.

A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory identified

Typically, electrons are free agents that can move through most metals in any direction. When

Water contamination by the chemicals used in today’s technology is a rapidly growing problem globally.

Researchers at Tohoku University have successfully increased the capacity, lifetime durability, and cost-effectiveness of a

A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater

It’s 7 billion years ago, and the universe’s heyday of star formation is beginning to

Building a robot takes time, technical skill, the right materials — and sometimes, a little

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a world leader in molten salt

A team of scientists has unlocked the potential of 6G communications with a new polarisation

Understanding how cells process nutrients and produce energy — collectively known as metabolism — is

While some microbes can make people sick or spoil food, others are critical for survival.

Wearable, long-term continuous heart monitors helped identify 52% more cases of atrial fibrillation compared to

The invention of a tool capable of unlocking previously impossible organic chemical reactions has opened

In order to train more powerful large language models, researchers use vast dataset collections that

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully simulated higher-order topological (HOT) lattices

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have found

Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years

Chemists at the University of Amsterdam have developed a method to furnish a range of

Rice University researchers have developed a smart material that adjusts its transparency with changes in

Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space

Published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, a research team led by the University of

Rare-earth elements are everywhere in modern life, found in everything from the smart device you’re

Using evolution as a guiding principle, researchers have successfully engineered bacteria-yeast hybrids to perform photosynthetic

Nothing in science can be achieved or understood without measurement. Today, thanks to advances in

For about fifteen years, Kagome materials with their star-shaped structure reminiscent of a Japanese basketry

A 3D quantum spin liquid has been discovered in the vicinity of a member of

Scientists for several years have studied the theoretical effectiveness of injecting sulfur dioxide into the

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

A team of researchers at Michigan State University has discovered a set of methods that

When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos

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

As climate change creates hotter, drier conditions, we are seeing longer fire seasons with larger,

In the scorching heat of summer, anyone who spends time outside — athletes, landscapers, kids

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

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have succeeded in something that has been pursued since

Researchers using Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have identified

Nylon, Teflon, Kevlar. These are just a few familiar polymers — large-molecule chemical compounds —

NIMS and SoftBank Corp. have jointly developed a model capable of predicting the cycle lives

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

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel reagent that enhances the precision of drug

Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have discovered a new type of “whistler,” an electromagnetic

James Tour’s lab at Rice University has developed a new method known as flash-within-flash Joule

A groundbreaking technology has been unveiled that improves the efficiency of thermoelectric materials, which are

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

For the past century since their discovery, superconductors and their mysterious atomic properties have left

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

A new brain-computer interface (BCI) developed at UC Davis Health translates brain signals into speech

The remarkable affinity of the microbial enzyme iron nitrogenase for the greenhouse gas CO2 makes

University of Missouri scientists are battling against an emerging enemy of human health: nanoplastics. Much

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a Southwest Research Institute-led team has confirmed

Last year marked Earth’s warmest year on record. A new study finds that some of

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that programming robots to create their

Solid-state electrolytes have been explored for decades for use in energy storage systems and in

A new artificial intelligence model developed by USC researchers and published in Nature Methods can

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes

Light is an excellent carrier of information used not only for classical communication technologies but

Ever since we learned that the surface of planet Mars is cold and dead, people

Dartmouth and Southern Methodist University researchers invented a technique that uses a specialized light projector

Researchers have developed an inexpensive bandage that uses an electric field to promote healing in

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought “holy grail” of organ transplantation

Gold does not readily lend itself to being turned into long, thin threads. But researchers

Everyone gets sleepy at work from time to time, especially after a big lunch. But

Mayonnaise continues to help researchers better understand the physics behind nuclear fusion. “We’re still working

The world is going to need a lot of weird metals in the coming years,

A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry

New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could inspire the design of riblets for

Cavendish physicists have discovered two new ways to improve organic semiconductors. They found a way

In the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists

Why does the universe contain matter and (virtually) no antimatter? The BASE international research collaboration

A research team led by engineers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and

While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the