Science

Astrophysicists reveal structure of 74 exocomet belts orbiting nearby stars in landmark survey

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have -- for the first time -- imaged a large number…

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New chainmail-like material could be the future of armor

In a remarkable feat of chemistry, a Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material.…

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Fine-tuned brain-computer interface makes prosthetic limbs feel more real

You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put…

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Fatal neurodegenerative disease in kids also affects the bowel

ssor of pediatrics, of genetics and of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "It can be…

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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble’s discovery of a new universe

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the…

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Super-Earth vs. Sub-Neptune? The winner is Super-Venus!

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike…

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Researchers invent soft, bioelectronic sensor implant

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and New York's Columbia University have embedded transistors in a soft, conformable material…

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Putting a lid on excess cholesterol to halt bladder cancer cell growth

Like all cancers, bladder cancer develops when abnormal cells start to multiply out of control. But what if we could…

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World’s oldest 3D map discovered

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris…

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Engineering quantum entanglement at the nanoscale

Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other…

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