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(ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science) Researchers have shown that high-intensity light will reverse light-induced phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites, enabling bandgap control and maximising efficiency ...

XFS timestamp tweak extends Unix time for a few centuries The forthcoming Linux 5.10 looks like it will include further fixes for the Year 2038 problem, aka Y2K38....

Sex, age, and severity of disease may be useful in identifying COVID-19 survivors who are likely to have high levels of antibodies that can protect against the disease.

Researchers have succeeded in making superficial white matter visible in a living human brain.

Everything from brand-new animated "Peanuts" specials to the famous "A Charlie Brown Christmas" will stream exclusively on Apple TV+. Following its Daytime Emmy-winning success with "Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 1...

The chips of the future will include photonics and electronics; they will have bandwidth, speed and processing and computing abilities that are currently unthinkable; they will make it possible to integrate many other co...

The Polish-Israeli team from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Weizmann Institute of Science has made another significant achievement in fluorescent microscopy. In the pages of the Optica journal...

Brain regions associated with emotional processing are not functionally connected in a mature way to areas associated with auditory and visual processing in newborns.

On this week's Get WIRED podcast, writer Dan Duane dives into the inevitability of fires in the west and how better models would help combat them.

Study implicates the PIEZO2 gene in experiencing the urge to urinate. The gene helps at least two cell types in the brain to identify when the bladder is full and needs emptying.

A rose-breasted grosbeak that was captured in a Pennsylvania nature reserve is a bilateral gynandromorph -- male on the right side and female on the left side.

Archaeologists have unearthed the rich burial of a sixth-century man thought to be an Anglo-Saxon warlord in southern England, after it was first discovered by metal detectorists.

The last haven for "real" Qdrops, 8kun (previously called 8chan), briefly went down Sunday night after a security researcher called the head of CNServers, the anti-denial-of-service provider that controversial site uses ...

The call was an election simulation featuring New Yorker all stars. Toobin apologized for the "embarrassingly stupid mistake."

Facebook has developed an AI that can translate directly between any pair of 100 languages without having to go through an English translation first, as many existing systems do

A new study has shown that the serum metabolite profile can be used to identify individuals likely at risk of developing an alcohol-related disease in the future. The finding also opens up new avenues for preventing alco...

New satellite imagery of California reveals not just the extent of its wildfire damage, but the depth of the loss.

This highly compact beam forming network has been designed for multi-beam satellite payload antennas. Generating a total of 64 signal beams outputted from a single antenna, this novel design could cover the entire Earth ...

Having light is critical for photography, but what about the quality of light? Our resident mad scientist, Don Komarechka, explains how different light sources can impact your photos. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to ...

(The University of Hong Kong) An international joint research team including Dr Zi Yang MENG, Associate Professor of Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has solved the puzzle of the NFL behaviour ...

It's going to be a challenging year for trick-or-treaters, given that the safest approach to collecting candy is to simply not to. But that hasn't stopped Halloween die-hards from finding clever ways to distribute treats...

U.S. and Italian engineers have demonstrated the first nanophotonic platform capable of manipulating polarized light 1 trillion times per second.