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A team of researchers at the MPQ has pioneered the integration of erbium atoms with special optical properties into a silicon crystal. The atoms can thus be connected by light at a wavelength that is commonly used in tel...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change drastically before the continent could support agriculture and permanent settlers.

91% of people say they would definitely like to take a simple test to analyze their risks of developing neurological disorders if they were available.

In recent years, global digitalization has seen unprecedented acceleration. Video streaming and video conferencing in home office and remote learning settings has resulted in a spike in residential broadband usage. Emerg...

The brain processes speech by using a buffer, maintaining a "time stamp" of the past three speech sounds. Findings also reveal the brain processes multiple sounds at the same time without mixing up the identity of each s...

Already used in computers and MRI machines, superconductors--materials that can transmit electricity without resistance--hold promise for the development of even more advanced technologies, like hover trains and quantum ...

Increased consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths.

In work published in npj Quantum Materials, a team led by Prof. Leonardo Degiorgi in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich has studied the broadband charge dynamics (i.e., longitudinal optical conductivity) of the ferr...

Chronic stress invokes irritable bowel syndrome-like symptoms in mouse models.

Archaeologists in Egypt excavating beneath an ancient temple have discovered a tunnel that carried water to thousands of people during its heyday.

All life, as far as we know, assembles itself molecule by molecule. The blueprint for our bodies is encoded on ribbons of DNA and RNA. Cellular factories called ribosomes make these blueprints physical by linking amino a...

Walking, talking machines will soon act as guides, companions and deliverers

The flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection that missed Earth

On Nov. 3 a solar storm caused a temporary crack in Earth's magnetic field. The resulting hole enabled energetic particles to penetrate deep into the planet's atmosphere and set off extremely rare pink auroras.

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses low-loss chip-scale programmable silicon photonic processors.

The rocket had been circling the Earth since Halloween

While quantum computing seems like the big-ticket item among the developing technologies based on the behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level, another direction promises to open a new door for sci...

In a trial of more than 16,000 people over 70, those who took a low-dose of aspirin every day were just under 10 per cent more likely to have a fall that required hospital care than those on placebo

Sleep is an important pillar of health -- but is sleeping too much bad for you?

Here's out list of the best binoculars for kids so you can find the perfect pair.

The cloud is a 2 million light-year-wide hydrogen stream leading from Stephan's Quintet

Researchers estimate that blue whales may each consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day during their main feeding season as they chow down on plastic-filled prey.