A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...
UCLA's researchers go low-tech to plead their case to the public with poster boards and props. The Trump administration has ...
High lanthanum and cerium values suggest neodymium and praseodymium potential - critical magnet metals driving EVs and the energy transition.
The Nobel Prize is considered the "Mount Everest of science." But it faces criticism over how winners are chosen, and may give a warped idea of scientific progress.
University of Virginia researcher Baoxing Xu’s research group introduces HydroSpread, an innovative fabrication method that ...
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for two major projects in Haiphong on September 26 ...
Imagine a tiny robot, no bigger than a leaf, gliding across a pond's surface like a water strider. One day, devices like this could track pollutants ...
Minicomputers were mid-range, general-purpose computers in the age of mainframes, the latter taking up large rooms and ...
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Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...
In storm clouds, ice does more than just float or fall—it might actually help generate electricity. A new study in Nature Physicsfinds that when ordinary ice is bent, it can produce an electric charge ...
In southern France, a multinational team is assembling a machine to confine a “miniature star.” If it works, controlled ...
Based in San Diego, General Atomics recently completed its Central Solenoid project after spending years constructing its ...