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While it has long been known that ultraviolet (UV) light can help kill disease-causing pathogens, the COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on how these technologies can rid environments of germs. However, the excimer la...

Devices in which heat is a necessary part of the computation process rather than a nuisance could lead to more energy-efficient machines

Originally dreamed up by Dominic Cummings, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has been tasked with a high-risk, high-reward approach to research funding

The development of cosmic structure - the huge strands of galaxies and caverns of emptiness that make up our universe - seems to be slowing down more than expected. That could mean there is something wrong with our under...

ESA's wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica.

Scientists grew early-stage human kidneys inside pig embryos and found the kidneys were "structurally normal" and made up of around 60% human cells.

Researchers have shown that if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at Earth from a distant star, it could detect the signatures of intelligent life in our planet's atmosphere.

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize the world, allowing massive health and science computation problems to be solved exponentially faster than by classic computing. But quantum computers have a big drawb...

Quantum materials have a host of exotic electronic, magnetic, and optical properties that make them prime candidates for use in future computing and energy technologies. Their properties arise from a complex interaction ...

More than 2,500 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco on Sept. 8.

Sir Ian Wilmut was key to the successful creation of Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, in 1996.

An analysis of more than 200,000 people found that living a healthy lifestyle that includes things like getting enough sleep, regularly exercising and eating a healthy diet is linked to a 57 per cent lower risk of develo...

Already a serious invasive species in the US and Australia, red imported fire ant nests have now been found in Sicily, Italy, and they could spread to other parts of Europe

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Using laser light, researchers have developed the most robust method currently known to control individual qubits made of the chemical element barium. The ability to reliably control a qubit is an important achievement f...

Researchers of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Konstanz in Germany as well as of Tohoku University in Japan have been able to increase the diffusion of magnetic whirls, so called skyrmions, by a...

Quantum computers, systems that perform computations by exploiting quantum mechanics phenomena, could help to efficiently tackle several complex tasks, including so-called combinatorial optimization problems. These are p...

Research at Hokkaido University has revealed that elusive particles called neutrinos can interact with photons, the fundamental particles of light and other electromagnetic radiation, in ways not previously detected. The...

Some of these aquatic reptiles of the dinosaur era had dozens of individual bones running down their long necks.

Many tortoise beetle larvae create shields for themselves using faeces and old skin. Scientists have now looked at how and why they create these poop parasols.

The remains have been identified as those of a gunner killed when the badly damaged aircraft crashed into the sea in 1943.

Sleep-tracker data from 35 countries shows that people in Western countries tend to have longer lie-ins at the weekend than people in Asia, and they go to bed earlier