science

Looking for new solutions to more efficiently harvest and store solar energy, scientists from the U.S. and China have synthesized a new, dual-atom catalyst...

ESA's Integral space observatory has witnessed a rare event: the moment that winds emitted by a swollen red giant star revived its slow-spinning companion,...

University of Wyoming researchers led a study that discovered that biomass smoke originating from South Africa that drifts over the southeast Atlantic Ocean significantly...

JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of...

Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D...

It's hard to believe that a single material can be described by as many superlatives as graphene can. Since its discovery in 2004, scientists...

Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable...

Researchers from Washington State University and Tufts University have demonstrated for the first time that a single metal atom can act as a catalyst...

A driverless car is making its way through a winding neighborhood street, about to make a sharp turn onto a road where a child's...

Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe. Equations describing the quantum...

New research from The University of Texas at Dallas supports the growing consensus that pain begins differently for men and women at the cellular...