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(University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering) A team of theoretical physicists at the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory (ICMT) in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

A faint fuzzy glow around the first black hole image last year baffled astronomers. Now we know what it contains - and it's more bizarre than we ever imagined

NASA's Mars Perseverance launch, set for Thursday, July 30, will send a new rover to the Red Planet to search for ancient habitable environments and microbial life.

Forty-five years after superconductivity was first discovered in metals, the physics giving rise to it was finally explained in 1957 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BC...

Introducing the newly designed 'meta-grid' of nanoparticles into the epoxy casing of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) offers a substantial improvement of their light output, besides increasing lifetime, according to the scie...

MIT researchers have introduced a quantum computing architecture that can perform low-error quantum computations while also rapidly sharing quantum information between processors. The work represents a key advance toward...

(Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)) Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Aalto University have discovered that electrochemical doping with ionic liquid can significantly enhance the optica...

Musical training may be beneficial for improving social skills and self-esteem in children, but there is little evidence to suggest learning music improves academic performance.

Researchers successfully applied a gene therapy platform to completely correct brain defects in a large animal model of a human genetic disease.

Pimavanserin substantially reduces symptoms of psychosis and relapse risk for people living with dementia.

Lithium, the silvery metal that powers smart phones and helps treat bipolar disorders, could also play a significant role in the worldwide effort to harvest on Earth the safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy ...

Phthalate exposure is linked to sleep disruptions and insomnia in menopausal women.

Biologists named 5 newly-described species of Australian "assassin flies" after Thor, Loki and other Marvel heroes.

Radioactive plutonium is crucial for keeping this and other power-hungry deep-space missions warm and working for yeras on end --

Most of the 50 huge boulders used to build Stonehenge's iconic architecture have a chemical composition that suggests they came from a site 25 kilometres away

Scientists in just five research fields - including neuroscience and atomic physics - scooped up more than half of the Nobel prizes awarded for science in recent decades

A prebiotic supplement that promotes good gut bacteria seems to protect against an Alzheimer's-like disease in mice and will soon be tested in a clinical trial

Recent restoration work of the multi-panel artwork "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" corrected prior restoration on a sheep representing the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

A scientific collaborative designed the vaccine without government or ethical oversight.

A way of shrinking the devices used in quantum sensing systems has been developed by researchers at the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing, which is led by the University of Birmingham.

From beginnings as skulking, cat-sized reptiles, dinosaurs came to rule Earth for 100 million years - but how? Their secret wasn't teeth or claws, but something deep inside them

A social media weather report that predicts outbreaks of propaganda is on its way. It can't arrive soon enough, says Annalee Newitz