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Topological insulators are a new phase of matter unique for their insulating bulk and perfectly conducting edges. They have been at the forefront of condensed matter physics for the past decade, and more recently inspire...

(George Washington University) Researchers at the George Washington University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine published a review in the journal Nitric Oxide suggesting that nitric oxide treatment can be pivotal ...

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(Ruhr-University Bochum) Spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way can have sprawling magnetic fields. There are various theories about their formation, but so far the process is not well understood. An international researc...

Spinal cord stimulation restores the sense of feeling of limbs lost to amputation.

The CRISPR family just grew bigger. The newcomer? A tiny DNA-chomping Cas protein, tucked away inside giant viruses. That's the recent finding from Dr. Jennifer Doudna's lab, one of the original discoverers of CRISPR, at...

A hidden drawing by Pablo Picasso has been found beneath one of the artist's abstract paintings, called "Still Life."

(Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, Chinese Academy) Nanoscale photothermal effects can induce substantial changes in the optical response experienced by the probing light...

Repeatedly administered tactile simulation over a sustained period of time alters neural processing of the hand area in the brain. The observable changes over time illustrate neuroplasticity and shed new light on the pro...

A new study reveals the role microglia plays in alcohol addiction, finding the immune cells alter the geometry of gray matter while under the influence of alcohol.

Ximena Cid (second from left) stands with students in front of a mural on the CSUDH campus. Credit: CSUDH By Korena Di Roma HowleyAs a young girl growing up in Sacramento, California, Ximena Cid would sit on her roof and...

Over the past decades, 'storing light' has appeared as a rather controversial concept, given that a photon's inherent nature hinders its spatial confinement. The first research efforts in demonstrating optical memory fun...

Promising findings from an initial trial of the Oxford vaccine for covid-19 have been published in The Lancet but many questions remain about whether the vaccine would work

The MIR range of the electromagnetic spectrum, which roughly covers light in the wavelength regime between 3 to 10 micrometers, coincides with the energies of fundamental molecular vibrations. Utilizing this light for th...

Tailoring and manipulating electromagnetic wave propagation has been of great interest within the scientific community for many decades. In this context, wave propagation has been engineered by properly introducing spati...

Scientists unveiled the largest 3D map of the universe ever, showing its expansion rate over 11 billion years.

What does it take to publish a scientific analysis in one of the world's largest experiments? After three years of searching, CMS physicist Hannsjörg Weber found what he was looking for. He and his colleagues finally un...

The United Arab Emirates' probe Hope is on its way to Mars, marking the first planetary science mission led by an Arab country. Here's why.

A long-awaited map of the big bang’s afterglow fails to settle a debate over how fast the universe is expanding --

Contact tracing must be paired with other strategies to reduce viral spread.

Craters on the moon show it was probably bombarded with asteroids about 800 million years ago, which also rained down on Earth and could have plunged the planet into an ice age

Researchers from Kazan Federal University, Texas A&M University and Institute of Applied Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences) found ways to direct high frequency gamma radiation by means of acoustics.