Twice a year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.
Scientists have discovered a way to convert fluctuating lasers into remarkably stable beams that defy classical physics, opening new doors for photonic technologies that rely on both high power and high precision.
Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a study conducted by scientists from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona ...
Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, adjusting the permeability of the membrane can improve drug delivery. Adding signaling molecules to the ...
Park ranger Jesse Anderson leads dozens of people on a weekly hike in North Carolina to see some of the most unique living things in the world鈥攑lants that supplement the nutrients they get from sunlight by digesting ants, ...
Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time鈥攁nd some of nature's tiniest organisms may offer a surprising way out.
For the design of future materials, it is important to understand how the individual atoms inside a material interact with each other quantum mechanically. Previously inexplicable vibrational states between carbon chains ...
Juan Casado Cord贸n, Professor of 萌妹社区ical Chemistry at the University of Malaga, considers graphene鈥攁n infinite layer of carbon atoms鈥攁s one of the greatest discoveries of the last 20 years due to its "unique properties" ...
A research team has discovered how to make a promising energy-harvesting material much more efficient鈥攚ithout relying on rare or expensive elements. The material, called 尾-Zn4Sb3, is a tellurium-free thermoelectric compound ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected water ice in a debris disk around HD 181327鈥攁 young star located within 160 light years away from ...
