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A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, scientists say. In...

Neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars in the universe, born out of the gravitational collapse of extremely massive stars. True to their name,...

MIT researchers have developed novel photography optics that capture images based on the timing of reflecting light inside the optics, instead of the traditional...

A study exploring the coupling between heat and particle currents in a gas of strongly interacting atoms highlights the fundamental role of quantum correlations...

Researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which could enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum computers. A...

Using an unprecedented number of satellite radar images, geophysicists at Caltech have tracked how the ground in Southern California rises and falls as groundwater...

New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part...

eHow water solvates and transports protons is a fundamental question facing chemists and biologists alike and is vital to our understanding of processes such...

Uncovering the expansion processes of human habitats in the past is of great importance for understanding the origins and establishment of present-day populations and...

All humans begin life as a single cell that divides repeatedly to form two, then four, then eight cells, all the way up to...

A pair of dwarf galaxies closely circling the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, were in the throes of merging into one...