Science and Space
Scientists finally solve a century-old quantum mystery
A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied o ...View More
Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA
Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) ...View More
A tiny chip may have solved one of clean energy’s biggest problems
For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely ra ...View More
The ancient oxygen flood that forever changed life in the oceans
Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously u ...View More
Astronomers capture breathtaking first look at a planet being born
An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the un ...View More
How did a planet this big form around a star this small?
The host star, TOI-6894, is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun, typical of the most commo ...View More
The Higgs boson just revealed a new secret at the Large Hadron Collider
The ATLAS Collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Hi ...View More
Google’s quantum computer just simulated the hidden strings of the Universe
The research, published in the academic journal Nature, represents an essential step in quantum comp ...View More
Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped people thrive in the Americas
A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have p ...View More
Your brain works overtime at night to burn fat and prevent sugar crashes
The brain controls the release of glucose in a wide range of stressful circumstances, including fast ...View More
