Graphic illustrating MIT’s new platform for manipulating light on the nanoscale. Thin structures represent patterned chromium ...

It was their oral microbiome, the constellation of bacteria that live in the mouth and play key roles in transforming dietary ...

Despite decades of debate, a new international study may have finally cracked the mystery behind gender gaps in mathematics, ...

Like a cosmic ghost, a black hole is invisible. Why? Because it traps light itself. Even photons can’t escape its gravity ...

Scientists discovered three scent compounds that rise in women’s body odor during ovulation. When men caught a whiff of these ...

Imagine two flashlights aimed at each other; do their beams collide? Nope! In everyday physics, light is too chill for drama.

In Tanzania’s Issa Valley, the landscape is a mix of thick forest near rivers and open woodlands. During the dry season, ...

Holographic virtual reality displays enable lifelike 3D experiences in ultra-compact devices. Image Credit: Nathan Matsuda / Stanford Report In the coming years, virtual reality (VR) is expected to ...

For centuries, lightning has fascinated scientists and laypeople alike. A groundbreaking study from Los Alamos National Laboratory suggests that cosmic-ray showers, high-energy particles originating ...

The fossil was found in a remote bonebed packed with prehistoric treasures. Led by Smithsonian paleontologist Ben Kligman, the team uncovered more than 1,200 fossils from a time when strange ...

They achieved a spin coherence time of 50 seconds, meaning the antiproton stayed in a stable quantum rhythm for nearly a minute. This marks the birth of the first antimatter qubit, a major milestone ...

When scientists at Rutgers combined these two into a layered structure called a heterostructure and blasted it with an ultra-high magnetic field, they unlocked a whole new level of quantum weirdness.