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A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling.

(Shinshu University) Scientists in Japan designed a gate-type adsorbent tower system that captures and separates mixed gases, CO2, to enable lowering greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources.

Tuomas Sandholm, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, is not a poker player--or much of a poker fan, in fact--but he is fascinated by the game for much the same reason as the great game theorist John von N...

Scientists traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to a known star inside the Milky Way for the first time.

Taxonomy is the science of naming, defining and classifying organisms into evolutionarily related groups. It gives biologists a common language.

Duke physician Eric Westman was one of the first champions of masking as a means to curtail the spread of coronavirus, working with a local non-profit to provide free masks to at-risk and under-served populations in the ...

Materials science researchers, led by electrical engineering professor Shui-Qing "Fisher" Yu, have demonstrated the first electrically injected laser made with germanium tin.

DHA treatment reduced the size of the damaged brain area and initiated a repair mechanism in animal models of stroke. DHA affected the levels of MANF and TREM2, two proteins critical for communication between brain cells...

Researchers argue COVID-19 should be considered as an inflammatory disease as the severity of the infection is associated with a dysregulation of the inflammatory immune response.

In research published in Science Advances, a group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) have used the principle of magneto-rotation coupling to suppress the transmission of sound wav...

Humans use the primary visual cortex to process sounds in the dark. This not only occurs in those with sight but also those who were born blind.

If 95% of people in the U.S. started wearing masks every time they left their homes, the total number of projected deaths would drop 49%.

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When fast-moving ions cross paths with large biomolecules, the resulting collisions produce many low-energy electrons which can go on to ionize the molecules even further. To fully understand how biological structures ar...

In 1952, Alan Turing published a study which described mathematically how systems composed of many living organisms can form rich and diverse arrays of orderly patterns. He proposed that this 'self-organization' arises f...

Physicists at CERN hope seeing the Higgs boson do something unexpected could reveal why different particles vary in mass, but so far it is behaving exactly as predicted

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Free radicals--atoms and molecules with unpaired electrons--can wreak havoc on the body. They are like jilted paramours, destined to wander about in search of another electron, leaving broken cells, proteins and DNA in t...

Underground pipelines, some as old as the cities they service, are often far past their intended lifespan and the need for replacing them looms as an expense most municipalities can't afford.

Authorities finally identified the culprit responsible for the mysterious disappearance of dozens of shoes from a German neighborhood.

Global lockdowns to halt the spread of the coronavirus will have a negligible impact on global warming, researchers have found. If measures stay in place until 2021, global temperatures will only be 0.01°C lower than ex...

Computer software can now edit selfie photos so it doesn't appear the person in the image is holding the camera in their outstretched arm