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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.

The risk of cognitive impairment increased from 1996 to 2014.

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.

(Science China Press) Scientists from China and USA classified 1D gapped topological superconducting quantum wires with local magnetic symmetries (LMSs), in which the time-reversal symmetry is broken but its combinations...

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...

Vegetarian foods are not equally healthy, according to new research.

Weight loss is most successful in heart attack survivors when partners join in the effort to diet, according to new research.

(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.

A new type of breast cancer drug can help halt progression of disease and is not toxic, according to phase 1 clinical trials.

In a new study, researchers show that one way to improve the body's immune response to vaccines is to factor in antigen valency. Valency refers to the number of antibody binding sites on an antigen.