A photon enters a cloud of atoms and emerges on the other side. When physicists calculate how long the atoms remained excited ...

The future of scientific discovery will use all the technological tools at humanity's disposal, and no scientific field is ...

Exposure to elevated levels of sodium fluoride might impair cognitive abilities by altering how brain cells grow and ...

A team of mathematicians used whimsical "silly sprinklers" to solve a physics mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades ...

Researchers have created cosmic dust from scratch by recreating space-like conditions inside glass tubes. The dust contains ...

Wearable devices have transformed how people track exercise, sleep, heart rate and other vital signs. Researchers at King ...

Light-field camera particle detector PLATON — developed by ETH Zurich and EPFL — replaces millions of scintillator components ...

LabZero is a virtual laboratory training platform that equips African scientists with practical skills before they step into ...

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to create chilled molecules containing the radioactive element radium.

When interacting with someone who shares a similar age or racial background, people tend to naturally coordinate their body ...

Artificial tissues can mimic muscle, liver, kidney and skin, but they still face a basic survival problem: cells need blood vessels. Without a dense vascular network, oxygen and nutrients cannot ...

AI, robotics and digital twins have lifted oil and gas production by around 2% a year, as the supermajor leans on technology ...