Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

This emerging field of space radiobiology has strong and perhaps unexpected links to the far better established discipline of ...

Understanding the make-up of asteroids also matters for the future of exploration: some asteroids may contain metals, minerals, and even water – potentially useful resources. But how can we tell what ...

Researchers have captured the first direct, momentum-resolved evidence that certain lattice vibrations carry measurable ...

Scientists develop fluorescent dye-loaded nanosized, irregularly-shaped microplastics to track their movement in real time.

Physicists in China have uncovered new evidence that chiral phonons and magnons can interact strongly inside magnetic crystals. Using neutron spectroscopy, a team led by Song Bao at Nanjing University ...

Scientists have used a laser technique to analyze Charles Darwin’s original Galápagos specimens without opening their nearly ...

A surprising new patent proposes an end to end “field factory” that can turn regolith, sand, and scrap into parts using spectroscopy plus automation.

A team of researchers from Skoltech, the Federal Center for Brain and Neurotechnologies (FMBA of Russia), Lomonosov Moscow State University, and other leading organizations has released a dataset that ...

Physicists in China have unveiled new clues to the origins of high-temperature superconductivity in an iron-based material just a single unit-cell thick. Led by Qi-Kun Xue and Lili Wang at Tsinghua ...

A few minutes beside trees or water can shift the brain into a calmer state. That change is not just a feeling.

By freezing a crucial phosphoric acid complex to near absolute zero, scientists uncovered a single, unexpectedly stable structure at the heart of proton transport.