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Flying cars? Not yet. Floating cars? Probably soon!
This suggests "diamond rain" may be quite common on other planets.
The engineered material can sense physical touch and now scientists want it to also processs visual information.
What is so important about the James Webb’s big old galaxies?
The findings can help us better predict how water behaves in some extreme environments on alien planets.
Move over, silicon.
Days were actually supposed to get longer, not shorter. What gives?
The 'Glass' building can speed up the process of developing human settlements on other planets by producing Earth-like gravity.
This is the first time researchers have developed a model for why some minerals can change color reversibly.
A new experiment confirms a long-standing anomaly that may point to a fourth flavor of neutrino.
Sometimes, copying nature can help us find amazing design ideas.
One species of eel can discharge 860 volts of electricity – that’s 200-fold higher than the top voltage of a single lithium-ion battery.
The Large Hadron Collider made history in 2012 by discovering the Higgs boson, now as it restarts, the search begins for new physics.
The theoretical framework that is supposed to explain how nature around us works failed a critical test.
A recent study shows that dense regions help stars lose gas quickly, inhibiting star formation.
Technology, meet pizza.
Solar sailing is a thing.
If true, this could have major implications for physics.
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.
