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The cooler is 10,000 times smaller than the previously smallest thermoelectric fridge.
We can now see the movement of the many galaxies living in nearby superclusters.
What researchers thought was water may turn out to be rocks, a new study concludes.
The patent never received too much attention, but scientists think it could have modern uses.
Scientists will use the new moon to aid in future interstellar colonization.
Less pollution during the COVID-19 lockdowns meant there were fewer aerosols in the atmosphere.
Physicists call it 'quantum weather'.
The resolution is so fine-tuned, the only blurred thing in the image is the thermal jiggling of the atoms themselves.
The cheap converter opens the door to a range of applications ranging from tracking cancers to observing cosmic objects.
An unusual method could help us assess glacier melting in real time.
This is the first time such a material has been developed.
It is undoubtedly the most valuable Einstein manuscript to ever come to auction, according to the auction house.
Another step towards a working fusion reactor.
The architecture of over 400 sites, built over a period of 2,000 years, has been revealed.
Algorithms could help usher in a new material revolution.
You never know where some niche knowledge can be applied.
You live in a world where simulations are possible -- and we're not sure if everything *is* a simulation.
When jammed, the chainmail particles stiffen into a fabric that can support a load 50 times its weight.
The asteroid 2021 PH27 is the closest asteroid to the Sun with a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead and completes an orbit in just 113 days.
It's like an ice cube flowing on water without friction.
A fluid dynamics model explains what happens to potentially harmful particles during handwashing.
No alchemy involved -- just clever science.
More than 65% of the energy we use is wasted as heat.
The transition towards longer days may have allowed cyanobacteria enough breathing room to produce enough oxygen to dramatically and forever alter Earth’s atmosphere.
Massive objects become the astrophysicists’ extra lenses.
It's still not ready for a hospital near you, but it will get there eventually.
Thanks to NASA's InSight Mars mission we now have a good picture of the interior of another planet.
Nothing like a good shake to get you back in order, eh?
The new material is one millionth the thickness of a single sheet of paper.
New research has shown that mountains on the surface of neutron stars could be millimetres tall.
The combination produces exciting physical phenomena that could be used in electronics and quantum technology.
Advanced civilizations could build giant power generator structures around black holes and we could even detect them.
All it needs is electricity, air, and a gold-palladium catalyst.
Supposed the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries. What happens?
Welcome to the world of spinning cosmic filaments.
Astronomers are no longer in the dark about the dimming of Betegeuse.
The composite material could prove particularly useful in aerospace where temperatures can spike wildly between space and atmospheric re-entry.
There could be hundreds of such events, unnoticed, every day.
A newly conducted in-depth cosmic census has revealed that star-forming molecular clouds come in an array of shapes and sizes.
Researchers developed a 3D star formation simulation, good enough to make you gaze at the example video for a while.
The study found magnetic phenomena in the center of the Milky Way that resemble those in our solar system
We now have definite evidence of how auroras light up the sky in the high latitudes.
The Dark Energy Survey has delivered its first results providing one of the most detailed pictures of the Universe ever created.
A new study shows the surprising way hair cracks shaving blades.
Astronomers have discovered iron and nickel vapour in the atmospheres of comets distant from the Sun and surrounding the interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov.
For three and a half centuries, the three-body problem has proven intractable. But an eight-dimensional loophole could prove our best shot yet.
Cutting-edge proximity ligation sequencing technology identifies and tracks microbial communities thriving in East Pacific Ocean plumes
The Unicorn is just three times the mass of the Sun, making it one of the smallest ever found.
Monostable inflatable buildings are *so* last year.
A pair of quasars closer together than any others previously observed could help researchers understand supermassive black hole binaries.