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High-speed sensors convert artistic touch into measurable timbre controlHigh-speed sensing technology has delivered long...

Nobel recognition for porous crystalsThree scientists — Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University o...

A well-preserved Triassic reptile challenges assumptions about early lizardsLepidosaurs—the group that today includes li...

Discovery: a window into a 112-million-year-old forestNew amber deposits uncovered in a quarry in Ecuador have preserved...

Engineers build an artificial neuron that speaks the brain's electrical languageResearchers at the University of Massach...

Chinese military researchers recently published a startling laboratory study that models what would happen if the same t...

(Loren Zemlicka/Moment/Getty Images)In classical physics, measuring time is straightforward: start a clock at "then" and...

Discovery and naming of a 108-million-year-old pachycephalosaurIn the eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, a remarkably comp...

Background: what is a hydride ion battery?Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academ...

Breakthrough: Sodium batteries that work at subzeroA research team led by Y. Shirley Meng at the University of Chicago a...

Chromosome fragmentation discovered in Atlas blue butterflyThe Atlas blue butterfly (Polyommatus spp.) has revealed unus...

New electron-beam method converts adamantane into pristine nanodiamondsResearchers have developed a low-pressure, electr...

Rising global electricity demand is intensifying the search for next-generation solar materials that are efficient, ligh...

A new study reveals that cognitive ability, not just hearing, plays a key role in how well people process speech in nois...

New test strip makes invisible nanoplastics visibleNanoplastic particles made visible: the newly developed test strip fr...

New sustainable building material from cardboard, soil and waterEngineers at RMIT University in Australia have developed...

Study finds visible biophoton emissions stop at deathA recent experiment by researchers at the University of Calgary and...

Project overview: tracing a 500-year-old lineageScientists involved in the Leonardo DNA Project report progress toward r...

IntroductionScientists at Nanjing University have developed a transparent coating that can convert ordinary window glass...

Prochlorococcus: an ocean microbe with global reachProchlorococcus is a tiny marine cyanobacterium that plays an outsize...