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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have been widely used in various applications requiring single photon detection thanks to their attractive performances. Since SNSPDs are thin films of serval nan...

Gamers seemed to be more comfortable after playing in a specialist gaming chair compared with a standard office chair

Mature oligodendrocytes, crucial for brain function and myelin production, have an unusually prolonged death process after damage, surviving up to 45 days post-trauma, a stark contrast to the rapid demise of their younge...

Iron screws and other so-called ferromagnetic materials are made up of atoms with electrons that act like little magnets. Normally, the orientations of the magnets are aligned within one region of the material but are no...

How much fuel can we add to the fire while still maintaining control? Metaphorically speaking, that's the question one team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been asking th...

Archaeologists found a 600-year-old castle with a moat in Brittany, France.

Six-month-old infants can predict actions of individuals who speak their mother tongue, but not of those speaking a foreign language. This research, merging insights from predictive brain mechanisms and social categoriza...

Researchers uncovered how the brain chooses which daily experiences to convert into long-term memories during sleep, pinpointing "sharp wave-ripples" in the hippocampus as the crucial mechanism. This phenomenon suggests ...

Solar scientists have been preparing for years for a 4-minute window, during the total solar eclipse on 8 April, in which they will study the sun's corona

The renewable energy transition will require a huge amount of materials, and there are fears we may soon face shortages of some critical metals. US government researchers think we could rope in plants to mine for these m...

Supercomputers play a vital role in scientific discoveries -- from helping us forecast climate change to discovering new drugs. We've rounded up the top fastest on the planet right now.

A super-stretchy hydrogel can stretch to 15 times its original length and return to its initial shape, and could be used to make soft inflatable robots

For decades, the pursuit of quantum computing has struggled with the need for extremely low temperatures, mere fractions of a degree above absolute zero (0 Kelvin or -273.15°C). That's because the quantum phenomena that...

Rescuers have been trying to coax a 2-year-old orca from a lagoon off Vancouver Island and back to the ocean for five days, but they only have a 30-minute window every day when waters are high.

Scientists have used electrical pulses to manipulate magnetic information into a polarized light signal, a discovery that could revolutionize long-distance optical telecommunications, including between Earth and Mars.

The final liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled Thursday at 2:45 p.m. ET. You can watch it live here.

Ancient hunter-gatherers created rock art next to dinosaur footprints in what is now Brazil.

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon spacecraft has sent back images after surviving its second lunar night - generally these periods are so cold they destroy spacecraft electronics

Individuals tend to become overly optimistic in situations marked by insecurity and anxiety, potentially to their detriment. The research, involving more than 1,700 participants, demonstrated that people are less accurat...

Future quantum computers could be based on electrons floating above liquid helium, according to study by a RIKEN physicist and collaborators, appearing in Physical Review Applied.

Metalenses, nano-artificial structures capable of manipulating light, offer a technology that can significantly reduce the size and thickness of traditional optical components. Particularly effective in the near-infrared...

Rice University engineers have demonstrated a way to control the optical properties of atomic imperfections in silicon material known as T centers, paving the way toward leveraging these point defects for building quantu...