Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy and efficiency.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

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Despite the similarities, Langmuir emphasised that this pump was fundamentally different from Gaede’s; the cold walls of the ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That ...

In a first, researchers from the U.S. and Germany excite Thorium-229 in opaque material, advancing optical nuclear clocks.

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

Superconductors promise loss-free electricity, but most only work at extreme cold. Hydrogen-rich materials changed that—yet their inner workings remained hidden because they only exist under enormous ...

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...