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(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Physicists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Maryland, and also at the University of Washington have found an answer...

About two billion years ago, an impactor hurtled toward Earth, crashing into the planet in an area near present-day Johannesburg, South Africa. The impactor—most likely...

The motivation to help conspecifics differs from species to species – and also between males and females. An international team of scientists with the participation...

NEW YORK – Rendering the invisible visible is among scientists’ favorite challenges. Credit: Hani Shayya/Stavros Lomvardas/Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK – Rendering the invisible visible is...

How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers Brent Tully and...

Tissue engineering—creating a “seed” of tissue that could grow into a functional, life-saving organ—sounds like magic. But it could become technology, thanks in part to...

Three distinct phases of climate variability in eastern Africa coincided with shifts in hominin evolution and dispersal over the last 620,000 years, an analysis of...

In the last decades, a new synthetic approach has been developed, generally termed as “on-surface synthesis” that substantially departs from standard wet-chemistry. Instead of the...

Infertility is a global public health problem caused by genetic defects, lifestyle, nutrition, and factors affecting the local metabolism and microenvironment of the reproductive system....

One day in the not-too-distant future, the plastics in our satellites, cars and electronics may all be living their second, 25th or 250th lives.Credit: Patrick...

SAN ANTONIO — Sept. 26, 2022 — A Southwest Research Institute-developed technology has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award. R&D World Magazine recognized SwRI and...

Cardiovascular experts at UVA Health have found a new way to track peripheral artery disease (PAD), a serious medical condition involving atherosclerosis in the leg...

Earlier this year a machine learning algorithm identified up to 5,000 potential gravitational lenses that could transform our ability to chart the evolution of galaxies...

Placental malaria as a consequence of Plasmodium falciparum infections can lead to severe complications for both mother and child. Each year, placental malaria causes nearly 200,000...

Using artificial intelligence, physicists have compressed a daunting quantum problem that until now required 100,000 equations into a bite-size task of as few as four...