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The Hubble Space Telescope has pinpointed the origin of the most distant known fast radio burst, which hit our planet in 2022

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have revolutionized modern lighting and sensing technology. From applications in our homes to industry, LEDs are used for all lighting applications, from indoor lighting over TV screens to bi...

Archaeologists think the man buried in the grave may have been a wealthy supporter of the Kalmar Union in which a single monarch united the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Later this year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will come even closer to the sun than it has before, while traveling at record-breaking speeds.

In a review published on 1 January 2024, in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, researchers discuss hydrogels in photonics, highlighting their potential to revolutionize the field. The article emphasizes how hydr...

AI will be featured heavily in products at CES 2024, with devices and software benefiting from highly sophisticated in-built AI tools. So is 2024 the year AI changes our lives?

With its row of glossy chambers connected by squiggly tubing, the AI-powered setup looks more like a futuristic brewery than a chemistry lab. Yet when given a prompt by its human operator--”make aspirin"--the system le...

Fire ants link together to form rafts when their nests are flooded, and unlike most materials the rafts don't become thinner when they are stretched

The quantum Cheshire cat effect draws its name from the fictional Cheshire Cat in the Alice in Wonderland story. That cat was able to disappear, leaving only its grin behind.

A humpback whale off Baja California Sur with a deformed spine was likely hit by a ship and the injury will probably be fatal, an expert told Live Science.

Laser-based absorption spectroscopy is an important method for determining the concentration of gas components in a sample. Modern devices are highly specialized for detecting very specific gases, such as trace gases in ...

During the last ice age, the first people to reach the Americas may have traveled from Asia along a sea ice "highway."

A trio of mechanical engineers at Seoul National University has found that the shape of a water jet dropped into a glass of water is the determining factor in the noise that results. In their paper published in the journ...

Researchers used AI to design a new material that they used to build a working battery - it requires up to 70 percent less lithium than some competing designs.

Badminton traces its roots back more than a millennium, but the modern version of the racket game originated in the late 19th century in England. Today, it is the second most popular sport in the world behind soccer, wit...

We have known for decades that the Mediterranean diet lowers the risk of heart attack and other conditions - now we are starting to understand how certain components of the diet work their magic

A new study in Physical Review Letters illuminates the intricacies of energy exchanges within bipartite quantum systems, offering profound insights into quantum coherence, pure dephasing effects, and the potential impact...

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds.

Measuring "entanglement islands" that contain copies of information that black holes have lost could help us find an answer to Stephen Hawking's black hole paradox

A professor of developmental psychology explains why our ability to multitask changes as we age.

Several moon missions are planned for 2024, including some that will attempt to mine for ice on the moon and test out new lunar rovers - and they can teach us about Earth's history

A study uncovers the likely reasons why a rare genetic quirk is tied to protection against Parkinson's disease.