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Here's everything you need to know about how to see the first "blood moon" total lunar eclipse since 2022, and the only one visible from North America this year, when it rises in March.

NASA has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, up from 1 in 42 as reported in previous calculations.

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes--individual molecules or atoms, for example. However, the quantum objects that Elena Redchenko works with at the Instit...

From the beginning of time to the origins of life, our "when" special series tackles the timing of crucial events and the surprising new discoveries we are making about them

A research team led by Prof. Wang Xianlong and Dr. Wang Pei from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a concurrent negative photoconductivity (NPC) and superconductiv...

Creating and sustaining fusion reactions--essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth--is extremely difficult, and Nathan Howard, Ph.D., a principal research scientist at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center...

In a study published in Optics Express, a research group led by Prof. Fu Yuxi from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the first room temperature hol...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech. Scientists introduced this exclusively human variant into mice and observed altered vocalizations,...

When atoms collide, their exact structure--for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their nuclei--has a lot to say about how they bounce off each other. This is especially true for atoms...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously--ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be explained through calcul...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new technique that uses light to tune the optical properties of quantum dots--making the process faster, more energy-efficient and environmentally sustai...

In a recent study, researchers developed a portable digital holographic camera system that can obtain full-color digital holograms of objects illuminated with spatially and temporally incoherent light in a single exposur...

Researchers at the University of Twente have solved a long-standing problem: trapping optically-generated sound waves in a standard silicon photonic chip. This discovery, published as a featured article in APL Photonics,...

The often stereotyped and offensive responses from AI chatbots role-playing as humans can be explained by flaws in how large language models attempt to portray demographic identities

If true, then we're more likely to find evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence in the future. The post Evolving Intelligent Life May Not Have Been as Unlikely as Many Scientists Predicted appeared first on Singularit...

Researchers have announced results from a new search at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL) Facility at Hamburg for a hypothetical particle that may make up the dark matter of the universe. The experim...

When it comes to layered quantum materials, current understanding only scratches the surface; so demonstrates a new study from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. Using advanced X-ray spectroscopy at the Swiss Light Source ...

Called the Lévy walk (or in some cases the Lévy flight) after mathematician Paul Lévy, it is a type of random wandering that occurs in nature in a wide variety of ways, from predators searching for food to economic, m...

A collaborative study published in Nature reveals an innovative strategy to enhance energy storage in antiferroelectric materials.

Researchers estimate that recent abortion bans have driven a rise in infant death rates in affected states, especially among Black children and kids with congenital anomalies.

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that help sea creatures survive in the ocean's deepest reaches.

An international team of scientists has unveiled new insights into the dissociation dynamics of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) under high-energy X-ray excitation. The study, conducted using advanced synchrotron radiation tech...