In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly specialized microscope to capture more precise details of how one of the most ...

In living organisms, every protein—a type of biological polymer consisting of hundreds of amino acids—carries out specific ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly ...

Even when particles seem to shift in the blink of an eye, as with quantum entanglement, there are measurable intervals ...

A supersolid is a phase of matter that combines two apparently opposite characteristics: the rigidity of a crystal and the ...

Scientists have developed a new type of time crystal – called a time quasicrystal – that could lead to breakthroughs in ...

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Studies that explore how the denser sections of atoms, known as atomic nuclei, interact with neutrons (i.e., particles with ...

A standard time crystal is a new phase of matter that features perpetual motion without expending energy. According to Chong ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

"The aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from as much as a 1,000 km [621 miles] away when the aurora is bright and if conditions are right," the agency explains on its ...

For most of my life, I’ve been interested in matters of scale — the extremes, from the unknowable vastness of our universe to ...