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Two incredible new images from the Hubble Space Telescope show galaxies in all their shining glory.

(Wiley) Organic photovoltaics have achieved remarkably high efficiencies, but finding optimum combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, still presents a ...

Sandia National Laboratories has created the first inverse-design software for optical metamaterials--meaning users start by describing the result they want, and the software fills in the steps to get there. The modern d...

An autonomous car has learned to make high-speed racing turns without spinning out, paving the way for safer manoeuvres in emergency conditions

Cooling devices like refrigerators and air conditioners consume a quarter of the world's electricity, but a plastic-based material could make them much greener

Mars is now a freezing desert, but its surface used to be flowing with water and it turns out its rivers were once wider than Earth's

Lab-grown blood vessels have been implanted in people for use with dialysis. The vessels could one day replace arteries damaged by heart disease

A scheme designed to limit children's access to adult content could end up creating a massive database of people's pornography habits

Our cells use a sugary language to identify and interact with each other. Cracking it will let us marshal stem cells and create alternatives to antibiotics

What do televisions and space exploration have in common? No, we're not talking about a cheesy physics joke; rather, this is the story of an often-overlooked piece of equipment that deserves a place in the annals of tele...

Biophysicists have used an automated method to model a living system--the dynamics of a worm perceiving and escaping pain. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published the results, which worked wi...

Driving across Iowa, Hendrik J. Viljoen, distinguished professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Nebraska, noticed that soybean fields were becoming increasingly infested with weeds each seaso...

Researchers now know what's going on inside mysterious particles called pentaquarks.

A study has found that psychotic experiences are more common among teenagers in the UK's most polluted areas

Marine ecologist Andrew Thaler is fascinated by how humans interact with the ocean, but concerned about the mining robots that are soon to be unleashed in the deep sea

The UK House of Commons is voting to try to agree on a solution to Brexit, but game theory suggests it has chosen a particularly bad way of doing so, says Petros Sekeris

On Feb. 24, 1987, light from a supernova that exploded 168,000 years ago in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor of the Milky Way, reached Earth. Astronomers Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde at the Las Campanas Observator...

A culture society in Serbia made public this month two letters that they say were written by late 19th- and early 20th-century inventor and electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla.

The ability to hide an arbitrary object with a cloak at a distance from the object is a unique task in photonics research, although the phenomenon is yet to be realized in practice. In a recent study now published in Lig...

Munich physicists have succeeded in demonstrating plasma wakefield acceleration of subatomic particles in a miniaturized, laser-driven model. The new system provides a broader basis for the development of the next genera...

What is Article 13? How does it affect the way you use the internet? Should you be worried? Your questions answered about the EU's new copyright rules

While the test has almost certainly created a cloud of space debris, it was done at such a low altitude that the debris should soon fall to Earth