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Writing in the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Oxford University’s Laura Maestro and her colleagues in Italy, Mexico, Spain and the USA, explain how the...

Fourteen GPS stations across Australia show the direction of the continent's shift from month to month.Credit: Shin-Chan Han Australia shifts and tilts back and forth...

A 3-D print of influenza virus. The virus surface (yellow) is covered with proteins called hemagglutinin (blue) and neuraminidase (red) that enable the virus...

Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and other outcomes are highly...

Credit: NanoPhotonics Cambridge/Bart deNijs For centuries, scientists believed that light, like all waves, couldn't be focused down smaller than its wavelength, just under a millionth...

Two different ways the helium atom can be ionized Credit: TU Wien In the double slit experiment, a particle travels on two different paths at...

Researchers led by Princeton scientists successfully operated a new instrument, the CHARIS spectrograph, which allows them to make detailed observations of planets orbiting distant...

This illustration depicts a newly discovered brown dwarf, an object that weighs in somewhere between our solar system's most massive planet (Jupiter) and the...

(Left) A graph charting the depth of the Hellas depression at different points, and a topographic map of the depression. (Right) A graph charting...

Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions—about, say, the correlations...

A system developed by researchers at MIT and Stony Brook University should make it easier for researchers to solve complex computational problems using dynamic...