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The former front-runner in the lunar space race aims to rekindle its exploration after nearly half a century --

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People who were rewarded whenever they acted according to their unconscious brain activity were able to learn a rule for answering questions correctly, without consciously being aware of the answer

A fresh look at the type of space rocks thought to have formed our planet suggests they contain more water than we thought, indicating early Earth was very wet

Higher-order topological insulators featuring quantized bulk polarizations and zero-dimensional corner states are attracting increasing interest due to their strong mode confinement. Recently, scientists from China and t...

A supernova, the explosion of a white-dwarf or massive star, can create as much light as billions of normal stars. This transient astronomical phenomenon can occur at any point after a star has reached its final evolutio...

A scientist predicts looming crises based on the growth of digital content

This type of caiman could grow to up to 33 feet in length.

Cells intuitively avoided dead-ends in a microscopic maze using a technique called chemotaxis.

An international team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, and colleagues from the USA and Switzerland have successfully combined va...

Photonic integrated circuits that use light instead of electricity for computing and signal processing promise greater speed, increased bandwidth, and greater energy efficiency than traditional circuits using electricity...

Some hand sanitizer products are being packaged in containers typically used for food and drinks.

It's been almost four years since Uber shipped 50,000 cans of beer across Colorado in a self-driving truck. It was the first-ever commercial shipment completed using self-driving technology. Now competitor Waymo is launc...

The quantum properties underlying crystal formation can be replicated and investigated with the help of ultracold atoms. A team led by Dr. Axel U. J. Lode from the University of Freiburg's Institute of Physics has now de...

A well-preserved dinosaur embryo has revealed that young titanosaurs, the largest ever dinosaurs, had nasal horns that we have never seen in adult fossils

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are new kind of topological quantum states with fully superconducting gapped band structure in the bulk, but they support gapless excitations called Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at the bo...

(Penn State) A stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing has been developed and tested by researchers at Penn State, Northeastern University and five universities in China.

Cells can navigate artificial mazes by generating chemical gradients to predict the best route, a finding that may explain how they migrate through the body

An international research team from Germany, Italy, and the U.K. has developed a key photonics component for the terahertz spectral range. By mixing electronic resonances in semiconductor nanostructures with the photon f...

Abbott Lab's rapid antigen test can be run without lab equipment in 15 minutes.

Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical mathematical model of what it means for a system to "be a computer."

(University of Münster) Organs in animals and in humans have one thing in common: they are bounded by so-called epithelial cells. Researchers at the Institute of Animal Physiology at the University of Munster have found...