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August 20, 2025
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Aug. 16, 2025 — Rice University scientists have discovered a way to make tiny vibrations, called phonons, interfere with each other more strongly than ever before. Using a special sandwich of silver, graphene, and silicon carbide, they created a record-breaking ...
Aug. 12, 2025 — AI is now a routine part of workplace communication, with most professionals using tools like ChatGPT and Gemini. A study of over 1,000 professionals shows that while AI makes managers’ messages more polished, heavy reliance can damage trust. ...
July 31, 2025 — Stepping into a virtual forest or waterfall scene through VR could be the future of pain management. A new study shows that immersive virtual nature dramatically reduces pain sensitivity almost as ...
July 28, 2025 — Deep in Serbia's Jadar Valley, scientists discovered a mineral with an uncanny resemblance to Superman's Kryptonite both in composition and name. Dubbed jadarite, this dull white crystal lacks the ...
July 10, 2025 — Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...
July 8, 2025 — Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” reminiscent of water flashing into steam. By revealing ...
June 27, 2025 — At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...
June 25, 2025 — Imagine printing your Martian home from dust, sunlight, and a bit of biology. A new synthetic lichen system uses fungi and bacteria to grow building materials directly from Martian soil, completely autonomously and without human ...
June 23, 2025 — Despite widespread fears, early research suggests AI might actually be improving some aspects of work life. A major new study examining 20 years of worker data in Germany found no signs that AI exposure is hurting job satisfaction or mental health. ...
June 20, 2025 — Scientists have, for the first time, directly observed phonon wave dynamics within self-assembling nanomaterials unlocking the potential for customizable, reconfigurable metamaterials with applications ranging from shock absorbers to advanced ...
June 19, 2025 — AI researchers in Switzerland have found a way to dramatically cut cement s carbon footprint by redesigning its recipe. Their system simulates thousands of ingredient combinations, pinpointing those that keep cement strong while emitting far less ...
June 19, 2025 — Every query typed into a large language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, requires energy and produces CO2 emissions. Emissions, however, depend on the model, the subject matter, and the user. Researchers have now compared 14 models and found that ...
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Aug. 18, 2025 — By exploring positive geometry, mathematicians are revealing hidden shapes that may unify particle physics and cosmology, offering new ways to understand both collisions in accelerators and the ...
Aug. 18, 2025 — For the first time, researchers have measured atomic temperatures in extreme matter and found gold surviving at 19,000 kelvins, more than 14 times its melting point. The result dismantles a ...
Aug. 13, 2025 — A groundbreaking quantum device small enough to fit in your hand could one day answer one of the biggest questions in science — whether the ...
Aug. 13, 2025 — UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...
Aug. 11, 2025 — At the Large Hadron Collider, scientists from the University of Kansas achieved a fleeting form of modern-day alchemy — turning lead into gold for just a fraction of a second. Using ...
Aug. 10, 2025 — A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within a century. Led by astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi, the mission would test the ...
Aug. 9, 2025 — Physicists are exploring thorium-229’s unique properties to create a nuclear clock so precise it could detect the faintest hints of dark matter. Recent measurement advances may allow scientists to ...
Aug. 7, 2025 — Chinese scientists uncovered a powerful energy source for deep Earth microbes: hydrogen and oxidants generated by rock fracturing during earthquakes. The process may also suggest how life could exist ...
Aug. 7, 2025 — Scientists have successfully synthesized methanetetrol, an incredibly unstable and previously elusive compound thought to be a key ingredient in the chemical evolution of life. Described as a ...
Aug. 5, 2025 — A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and quantum physics, researchers uncovered its bizarre ability to maintain ...
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Aug. 3, 2025 — Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for everything to come. Scientists have now recreated the first molecule ever to ...
Aug. 3, 2025 — Cosmic rays from deep space might be the secret energy source that allows life to exist underground on Mars and icy moons like Enceladus and Europa. New research reveals that when these rays interact ...
Aug. 1, 2025 — Physicists have discovered that when beams of light interact at the quantum level, they can generate ghost-like particles that briefly emerge from nothing and affect real matter. This rare ...
July 29, 2025 — Scientists at UC Merced have engineered artificial cells that can keep perfect time—mimicking the 24-hour biological clocks found in living organisms. By reconstructing circadian machinery inside ...
Aug. 2, 2025 — Astronomers using ALMA have discovered complex organic molecules, including potential precursors to life's building blocks, in the protoplanetary disc of a young star, V883 Orionis. This finding ...
July 24, 2025 — AI-generated videos are becoming dangerously convincing and UC Riverside researchers have teamed up with Google to fight back. Their new system, UNITE, can detect deepfakes even when faces ...
July 11, 2025 — A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...
July 13, 2025 — Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects ...
July 11, 2025 — In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow in space. The Moon-Rice project, led by the Italian Space Agency in ...
July 15, 2025 — Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the long-running Hubble tension. Galaxy counts reveal a sparsely populated ...
July 9, 2025 — Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our ...
July 8, 2025 — Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep within them. These “dark dwarfs” could exist in regions like the ...
July 2, 2025 — Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal ...
July 6, 2025 — Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge, this ...
June 30, 2025 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies ...
June 22, 2025 — Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted over 13 billion years ago. These signals, particularly the elusive ...
June 22, 2025 — AI is revolutionizing the job landscape, prompting nations worldwide to prepare their workforces for dramatic changes. A University of Georgia study evaluated 50 countries’ national AI strategies ...
June 28, 2025 — A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists' understanding of how our Solar System evolved. Researchers found djerfisherite—a mineral typically born in ...
June 22, 2025 — Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a ...
June 14, 2025 — A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes ...
Sunday, August 3, 2025
- Scientists Just Recreated the Universe’s First Molecule and Solved a 13-Billion-Year-Old Puzzle
- Underground Life on Mars? Cosmic Rays Could Make It Possible
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Sunday, June 22, 2025
- What the Universe Tried to Hide: The 21-Centimeter Signal Explained
- Half of Today’s Jobs Could vanish—Here’s How Smart Countries Are Future-Proofing Workers
Saturday, June 28, 2025
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Monday, June 16, 2025
- Robots That Feel Heat, Pain, and Pressure? This New “skin” Makes It Possible
- Tiny Orange Beads Found by Apollo Astronauts Reveal Moon’s Explosive Past
- Magnetic Mayhem at the Sun’s Poles: First Images Reveal a Fiery Mystery
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Saturday, June 7, 2025
- This Battery Self-Destructs: Biodegradable Power Inspired by 'Mission: Impossible'
- Largest-Ever Map of the Universe Reveals 10x More Early Galaxies Than Expected
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
- Astronomers Just Found a Giant Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
- Clean Energy, Dirty Secrets: Inside the Corruption Plaguing California’s Solar Market
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
- Millions of New Solar System Objects to Be Found and 'filmed in Technicolor' -- Studies Predict
- Black Holes Could Act as Natural Supercolliders -- And Help Uncover Dark Matter
Monday, June 2, 2025
- Webb Reveals the Surprising Origin of Ultra-Hot Exoplanet WASP-121b
- Researchers Recreate Ancient Egyptian Blues
- New Laser Smaller Than a Penny Can Measure Objects at Ultrafast Rates
Thursday, May 29, 2025
- New Quantum Visualization Technique to Identify Materials for Next Generation Quantum Computing
- Could 'pausing' Cell Death Be the Final Frontier in Medicine on Earth and Beyond?
- Electronic Tattoo Gauges Mental Strain
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- Groundwork Laid for Designer Hybrid 2D Materials
- Mid-Air Transformation Helps Flying, Rolling Robot to Transition Smoothly
- Ongoing Surface Modification on Jupiter's Moon Europa Uncovered
- Observing One-Dimensional Anyons: Exotic Quasiparticles in the Coldest Corners of the Universe
- Cosmic Mystery Deepens as Astronomers Find Object Flashing in Both Radio Waves and X-Rays
- Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials
- Five Things to Do in Virtual Reality -- And Five to Avoid
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- Cryogenic Hydrogen Storage and Delivery System for Next-Generation Aircraft
- Machine Learning Simplifies Industrial Laser Processes
- The Magic of Light: Dozens of Images Hidden in a Single Screen
- 'Raindrops in the Sun's Corona': New Adaptive Optics Shows Stunning Details of Our Star's Atmosphere
- Emotional Responses Crucial to Attitudes About Self-Driving Cars
Friday, May 23, 2025
- 'Hopelessly Attached': Scientists Discover New 2D Material That Sticks the Landing
- A Dental Floss That Can Measure Stress
- Controlling Quantum Motion and Hyper-Entanglement
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- An Artificial Protein That Moves Like Something Found in Nature
- Saturn's Moon: Mysterious Wobbling Atmosphere Like a Gyroscope
- Could AI Understand Emotions Better Than We Do?
- Infrared Contact Lenses Allow People to See in the Dark, Even With Their Eyes Closed
- ALMA Measures Evolution of Monster Barred Spiral Galaxy
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- A One-Pixel Camera for Recording Holographic Movies
- Unveiling the Secrets of Planet Formation in Environments of High UV Radiation
- 'Cosmic Joust': Astronomers Observe Pair of Galaxies in Deep-Space Battle
- A New Technology for Extending the Shelf Life of Produce
- Extreme Weather Cycles Change Underwater Light at Lake Tahoe
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
- World's First Petahertz-Speed Phototransistor in Ambient Conditions
- Robots Learning Without Us? New Study Cuts Humans from Early Testing
- Empowering Robots With Human-Like Perception to Navigate Unwieldy Terrain
- Astronomers Observe Largest Ever Sample of Galaxies Up to Over 12 Billion Light Years Away
- Streaked Slopes on Mars Probably Not Signs of Water Flow, Study Finds
- Nimble Dimples: Agile Underwater Vehicles Inspired by Golf Balls
- How to Swim Without a Brain
- Not One, but Two Massive Black Holes Are Eating Away at This Galaxy
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Bismuth's Mask Uncovered: Implications for Quantum Computing and Spintronics Materials
- Ultraviolet Data from NASA's Europa Clipper Mission
- AI Overconfidence Mirrors Human Brain Condition
- A Multitude of Protoplanetary Discs Detected in the Galactic Centre
- Stretched in a Cross Pattern: Our Neighboring Galaxy Is Pulled in Two Axes
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- What Lies Beneath: Using Rock Blasted from Craters to Probe the Martian Subsurface
- Study Shows Vision-Language Models Can't Handle Queries With Negation Words
- Handy Octopus Robot Can Adapt to Its Surroundings
- Dark Matter Formed When Fast Particles Slowed Down and Got Heavy, New Theory Says
- Astronomers Take a Second Look at Twin Star Systems
- Light-Driven Cockroach Cyborgs Navigate Without Wires or Surgery
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Researchers Develop Living Material from Fungi
- Remote Particle Measurement Via Quantum Entanglement
- Astrophysicists Explore Our Galaxy's Magnetic Turbulence in Unprecedented Detail Using a New Computer Model
- AI Meets the Conditions for Having Free Will -- We Need to Give It a Moral Compass
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Submarine Robot Catches an Underwater Wave
- Universe Decays Faster Than Thought, but Still Takes a Long Time
- Astrophysicist Searches for Ripples in Space and Time in New Way
Friday, May 9, 2025
- Amuse, a Songwriting AI-Collaborator to Help Create Music
- Self-Assembly of a Large Metal-Peptide Capsid Nanostructure Through Geometric Control
- Bringing Superconducting Nanostructures to 3D
- Urine, Not Water for Efficient Production of Green Hydrogen