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Using physical chemistry methods to look at biology at the nanoscale, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researcher has invented a new technology to image single molecules with unprecedented spectral ...

Neutrons are notoriously slippery subatomic particles. On their own, they break down in a matter of minutes, but within the confines of the atom's nucleus, neutrons are a foundational piece of nearly all known types of m...

A river in Myanmar appears swollen with monsoon rain in a new photo taken from space.

An astrophotographer spotted a beautifully-formed solar prominence that looks like a giant version of the famous Parisian landmark.

Nonny de la Peña has been called "The Godmother of Virtual Reality." Facebook's acquisition of Oculus may have spawned a VR goldrush among tech giants and start-ups alike, but Nonny de la...

Imagine staying dry underwater for months. Now Northwestern University engineers have examined a wide variety of surfaces that can do just that--and, better yet, they know why.

One of the striking features of self-organization in biomolecular systems is the capacity of assemblies of filamentous particles for synchronous motion. Physicists of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich now provide ne...

The giant silken cities built by Anelosimus studiosus spiders collapse more rapidly if the colony's inhabitants are not aggressive enough

Researchers from the University of Southampton have demonstrated for the first time a new laser cooling method, based upon the interference of matter waves, that could be used to cool molecules.

Fossils of one of the oldest flowering plants on Earth date back to the early Cretaceous period, approximately 125 million to 130 million years ago.

There are five medications approved in the U.S. for the long-term treatment of obesity, but none can take the weight off without the help of diet and exercise.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a hand bone yet to resemble that of a modern human. The hand belonged to an unknown human relative who would've been much taller and larger than any of its contempora...

The discovery of a 1.8 million-year-old pinky bone in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge suggests that our ancestors had already come down from the trees by that time

How can we figure out when the universe began? Looking out from our planet at the vast array of stars, humans have always asked questions central to our origin: How did all of this come to be? Has it always existed? If n...

A new class of fascinating technologies--including optics in computing, telecommunications links and switches, and virtually any other optical component--could be created simply by configuring a mesh of light-controlling...

As we gear up to let domestic robots into our homes it is time to rethink what a home is for - and how they need to change to accommodate machines

The mystery surrounding the ancient rock paintings of Utah's Black Dragon Canyon has finally been solved.

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers with affiliations to the University of Tokyo and Tohoku University, both in Japan, have succeeded in filming the growth of a sample quasicrystal for the first time. In their paper publis...

Creationists and researchers have long debated how to interpret the rock art adorning Black Dragon Canyon in Utah.

How relativity changed the rules of our reality --

Up until now, no material has been able to conduct current with no resistance at such high temperatures: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz observed...

For the powerful quantum computers that will be developed in the future, cracking online bank account details and credit cards number will be a cinch.