A story that begins with three animals riding in a balloon ends with the discovery of protons impacting our atmosphere with ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease.

Two atom men last week took hard, scientific looks at the future. One envisioned happier times ahead; the other, from. where he sat, could see doomsday. The Wheels Whir. In Manhattan, Dr. J. A ...

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Using a groundbreaking imaging technique called SMART-EM, researchers captured unprecedented footage of atoms moving and reacting during a chemical transformation. “By visualizing this process ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — A research team has developed an innovative single-step laser printing technique to accelerate the manufacturing of lithium-sulfur batteries. Integrating the commonly time ...

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Once the diamonds are brought to the surface and cooled relatively quickly, those carbon atoms are locked into place and there's just not enough energy to now start rearranging them into graphite.

Apr. 23, 2025 — Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a ...

Bright idea: Wolfgang Ketterle (in his M.I.T lab) hopes to discover new forms of matter by studying ultracold atoms. Richard Howard Where's the coldest spot in the universe? Not on the moon ...