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A bizarre object called "the Cow" is the flattest explosion ever detected, and the first example of a rare phenomenon called a fast blue optical transient (FBOT).

Researchers have serendipitously discovered that a key step in photosynthesis can occur much earlier in the process than previously believed.

Using a model of a human small intestine, researchers found that microplastics in high-fat foods significantly increase the absorption of fat

Under the laws of quantum mechanics, information about what has fallen into a black hole cannot be destroyed, and now researchers claim they have figured out how it is preserved

Centenarians harbor a unique immune cell type, immune activity, and highly functioning immune system that has adapted to a history of illness, allowing for exceptional longevity.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope measured the temperature of the Earth-like planet TRAPPIST-1b and found that it is too hot for humans and likely has no atmosphere.

A brick tomb from the Jurchen Jin period of northern China was discovered during the renovation of drains in Shanxi province.

New evidence suggests astrocytes can sense and react to change. These processes are key to memory formation and behavioral shifts.

Scotland's oldest true tartan dates to between 1500 and 1600.

By consuming oxygen near to tumours, the battery makes a class of experimental drugs target oxygen-free cancerous cells more effectively

Simple calculations, such as factorising low numbers, can be made by mixing together differently shaped strands of DNA

Having more tools helps; having the right tools is better. Utilizing multiple dimensions may simplify difficult problems--not only in science fiction but also in physics--and tie together conflicting theories.

A river of hazy red light stretched across the night sky over Denmark after the most powerful solar storm to hit Earth for six years slammed into our planet. The rare phenomenon is not an aurora.

Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry -- which mathematicians thought to be impossible -- at an American Mathematical Society meeting.

Details of how the UK government is planning to reach net zero by 2050 reveal that the five biggest policy areas include decarbonising power and ramping up heat pumps - but will these bets actually pay off?

Researchers are investigating the benefits of psychedelics on cognition from memory malleability to cognitive creativity.

Holography, invented by Gabor, provides an approach for recording and reconstructing the complete information (i.e. intensity and phase) of the light from an object. Since its invention, holographic-related technologies ...

Benefiting from superior capability in manipulating wavefront of electromagnetic waves, metasurfaces have provided a flexible platform for designing ultracompact and high-performance devices with unusual functionalities....

Over last few decades, study of topological phases of matter in solid-state electron systems has been extended to other research fields, including synthetic dimensions, and motivates extensive research on topological mat...

Gigahertz femtosecond lasers are suited to enhance and regulate laser machining quality to engineer the physicochemical properties of materials. Materials scientists seek to understand the laser-material interactions by ...

Researchers at University of Tokyo, JTS PRESTO, Ludwig Maximilians Universität and Kindai University recently demonstrated the modulation of an electron source by applying laser light to a single fullerene molecule. The...

Scientists have used a common weather forecasting technique for insights into how powerful lasers turn hunks of solid material into soups of electrically charged particles known as plasmas.