Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Webb telescope discovers hidden planet in famous star system
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the most...
Chemists shrink gallium nitride, the material behind LED lighting, into nanocrystals
Nanocrystals are so useful that they formed the basis of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But despite their usefulness, scientists have so far been able to ma...
Listening to 'ringing' black holes unlocks future gravitational-wave astronomy
Listening to the "ringing" produced by black holes after they collide and merge could allow scientists to test Einstein's theory of general relativity under the...
New computational imaging method cuts X-ray dose while preserving high resolution
Researchers have shown that it's possible to take clear, high-resolution X-ray images using very little radiation. With more development, the new approach could...
Hourly data reveal Alpine 100-year floods could arrive every 45 to 80 years
Heavy precipitation becomes more intense with every degree Earth warms. This affects flooding. Using hourly data from 384 rivers in the Alps, researchers from t...
Researcher studies how people shift attention during everyday and high-stakes tasks
Sustaining attention over long periods affects everything from routine tasks to high-stakes decisions. Whether it is an umpire making a split-second call or a d...
Scientists achieve all-electrical control of single-molecule quantum states
Quantum technologies promise revolutionary advances in computing, sensing and information processing. However, controlling individual quantum bits (qubits) at t...
Cave-dwelling snail discovered in Greece, named after Hermes and the nymph who nurtured him
A team of researchers from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has discovered a completely new genus and species of subterranean freshwater snail...
Rare Australian wattle is on the brink of extinction
The spidery wattle (Acacia araneosa) is a national treasure. The plant is named for its spidery, leaflike phyllodes and shares the same iconic golden flowers as...
A new 'library' for Feynman integrals
Theoretical physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a new method of ordering Feynman integrals. This critical step in making theo...
Americans increasingly view illicit drug policy through a partisan lens, new analysis finds
Since the early 1970s, when the Nixon administration launched the "war on drugs," Gallup has been asking Americans how they feel about problems surrounding illi...
How ions flow like a liquid through a solid crystal
A research team led by the University of Osaka, working with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), RIKEN and the Institut...