science

Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a nanoscale...

In terms of size, it may be the smallest scientific breakthrough ever made at Harvard. Harvard Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Kang-Kuen Ni...

Imagine a future where a guided biomachine put into your body seeks out defective gene sequences in each cell and edits in the correct...

Entanglement is of central importance for the new quantum technologies of the 21st century. A German-Austrian research team is now presenting the largest entangled...

Trade and social networking helped our Homo sapiens ancestors survive a climate-changing volcanic eruption 40,000 years ago, giving hope that we will be able...

Blend two or three metals together and you get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in...

A team including physicists from the University of Basel has succeeded in using atomic force microscopy to obtain clear images of individual impurity atoms...

Large wildfires cause increases in stream flow that can last for years or even decades, according to a new analysis of 30 years of...

Predicting chance-driven evolution seems impossible. Nevertheless, scientists from AMOLF in Amsterdam and the ESPCI in Paris have succeeded in making predictions about the evolution...

If you want to know how to pour the perfect pint or create the ultimate cup of coffee, then you really need a mathematician. That...

Caffeine is well-known for its ability to help people stay alert, but a team of researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital has...