Physicists have made the world's first visible time crystal, that could help create unforgeable bank notes.A time crystal is a form of matter with patterns t...

To suck the blood of passersby, ticks must first snag a host from their perch on a leaf or flower—a tricky feat for a sesame seed–size arachnid that can’t ju...

Mushroom foragers rejoice! Your lives just got a whole lot easier! Now, we can farm four mushrooms that used to only be found in the wild: morels, huitlacoche, chanterelles, and truffles. Here's why it took so long.

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Space travel is infamously bad for your health. But it turns out that in some very specific cases, space travel may actually be beneficial. Like by strengthening your bones, or repairing your DNA.

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To explain how the world works, scientists occasionally have an idea that — upon further testing — turns out to be wrong. From rays that carry coldness instead of heat, to a neighboring star that causes regular mass extinctions on Earth, here are 5 things…

Dig into the Greek myth of Meleager, who set out to end a boar’s destruction of his city along with Greece’s best warriors.

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The night of her son's birth, the queen of Calydon was visited by three shadowy goddesses, known as the Fates. They gestured towards…

The most useful chemical you've never heard of? Explore the ongoing significance of a chemical compound first isolated at the Ri 200 years ago: benzene.

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NASA astronaut Chris Williams is at Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss his upcoming eight-month mission on the International Space Station as part of Expedition 73/74. The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft, targeted to launch Nov. 27 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome…

This is a new type of parachute designed using the principles of kirigami – the art of transforming paper into 3D designs with cuts and folds. It starts as a flat disc, then deploys into a spring-like 3D cone as air flows through it.

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Physicists have made a splash without the splatter—by bouncing a tiny oil droplet on a vibrating surface.Reported in a paper in press at Physical Review Lett...

Most cultures who developed metalworking technology never let the skill go to waste. But in what's now Michigan, Native Americans started making metal tools well before anyone else did, and then stopped. And the reason why this happened is hiding in the very…

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When the Visualphone VP210 hit the market in 1999, it advertised a never-before-seen feature: a camera. With only .11 megapixels, the Visualphone is a relic compared to modern devices. But while this technology…

Call it one of the world’s smallest cat videos.To demonstrate an advance that could one day help build a type of quantum computer, researchers have made a ca...

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Even though cleft lips and palates are really common, there's still a lot of research that needs to be done into why they form.…

When particle physicist John Huth was briefly lost at sea, he started to wonder how the people around the world who navigate vast oceans figured their way around. What started as an afternoon activity gone awry led him to a years-long research journey, meeting…

In their first lecture, John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips examine the symmetry and other striking physical characteristics of minerals and gemstones.

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In November 2024, environmental police stumbled on an unexpected sight: thousands of orange-and-black bumblebee catfish scaling the slippery rocks behind wat...

What does a crystal look like up close? John Meurig Thomas uses optical and electron diffraction to reveal the crystal architecture and explains how the architecture of proteins links to their function.

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Levitating with superconductors, charging with semiconductors and combusting with catalysts. John Meurig Thomas demonstrates the use of these materials in our everyday life.

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How do you amplify light with the stimulated emission of radiation? In this lecture, David Phillips shows us step by step how to construct a laser.

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