Study Suggests Time May Not Be Fixed, Could Flow in Both Directions
At a Glance A team of researchers from the University of Surrey has made a groundbreaking discovery that…
Demystifying the “Rainbow Mountains”
The Zhangye Danxia mountains in China are made up of fossilized soil layers (paleosols), preserving over 100 million…
Imaging the Atom
Advances in electron microscopy now allow us to see individual atoms, a feat once thought impossible 30 years…
Octopuses Are Assembling Fish “Armies”
Despite being solitary creatures, octopuses like “Dave” collaborate with fish to hunt more efficiently. The fish locate prey,…
How AI Is Helping Save Medicine
DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 solved a decades-old challenge by predicting the 3D structures of over 200 million proteins, drastically…
Newly Discovered Exoplanet HD 20794 d Found in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star
At a Glance An international team of researchers has confirmed the discovery of a new exoplanet called HD…
New LiDAR System Captures High-Resolution 3D Images from 1 Kilometer Away
At a Glance Scientists have developed a cutting-edge LiDAR system capable of capturing high-resolution 3D images up to…
Metal expands when heated. What does that mean for railroads?
Hans Goldschmidt discovered that metal oxides, such as rust, react with aluminum powder to produce pure liquid metal,…
The Science of Glue
Cyanoacrylate, the main ingredient in super glue, forms long polymer chains when exposed to moisture, allowing it to…
What’s an “Atomic Trampoline?”
A unique metallic glass called amorphous metal made a simple-looking disk astonishingly bouncy, leading NileRed to investigate its…