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Using solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) techniques, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory discovered a new quantum criticality in a superconducting material, leading to a greater unde...

The combustion of oil, gas, and coal have made possible a much higher standard of living for humans through radical innovations in technology and science over the past 150 years. Yet for decades, scientists have provided...

It's the weirdest, least-understood state of matter in the universe.

We learn it at high school: Release two objects of different masses in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth's gravity. What we haven't learned, because it hasn't been directly measu...

Following New Scientist's investigation into doubts around the 2015 discovery of gravitational waves, LIGO has announced it will publish a new clarifying paper

Using cryo electron microscopy, researchers have successfully images serotonin attaching to the receptor and twisting open the channel, allowing sodium molecules to travel through.

Researchers have discovered how the nature of T cells help protect the brain from viruses. The findings shed light on the role the immune system plays in a number of neurodegenerative disorders.

Solving a complex problem quickly requires careful tradeoffs - and simulating the behavior of materials is no exception. To get answers that predict molecular workings feasibly, scientists must swap in mathematical appro...

A mysterious, bubbling mud geyser is on the move in southern California, flitting dangerously close to railroad tracks, Highway 111 and some very expensive optic cables like a geologic poltergeist, according to news sour...

Russian physicists have developed a method for drastically narrowing the emission spectrum of an ordinary diode laser, like that in a laser pointer. This makes their device a useful replacement for the more complex and e...

The Pacific nation of Palau is banning some sunscreens because they may be damaging to coral reefs. Anyone caught flouting the rules will be fined up to $1000

As quantum technology continues to come into its own, investment is happening on a global scale. Soon, we could see improvements in machine learning models, financial risk assessment, efficiency of chemical catalysts and...

Small doses of psychedelics could unlock creative thinking.

Warm spells, tropical nights, and heavy rainfall are all on the rise in the UK, according to 60-years of data analysed by the Met Office

Pardon me, do you have change for a Hawking?

If you're in Greenland and a strange cloud darkens the sky, that cloud might be made up of something scientists call "glacier flour."

Floor mosaics with explicit content were found inside a Roman latrine in Turkey.

(University of Utah) In many places, light pollution has obliterated our view of the stars and impacted wildlife and public health. Utah's success in stewarding night skies compelled two leading dark sky organizations to...

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) The team headed by Núria López-Bigas has published an article in Cell about what might have favored the periodicity of certain base pairs in the genomes of eukary...

(ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences) An international team of researchers discovers that disorder is part of the structural transition of Vanadium Dioxide from an insulator state to a metallic state at extremely sma...

(Tokyo Institute of Technology) Results from a collaborative study by Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tohoku University, Japan, raise prospects for large-scale production of algae-derived starch, a valuable bioresource...

(University of Toronto) Donnelly Centre Researchers have uncovered a network of more than 200 genes linked to autism. They have also unpicked an exact sequence of events during microexon splicing, known to be disrupted i...