A new federally funded study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania offers an unprecedented ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

Iridium oxide is one of the most important—and most problematic—materials in the global push toward clean energy. It is ...

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

Teeth are composites of mineral and protein, with a bulk of bony dentin that is highly porous. This structure allows teeth to ...

How do you lay out a space station to accommodate life in zero gravity? That's one of the challenges facing Teague, a century-old design firm.

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is addressing one of the nation’s most urgent challenges: securing a reliable domestic supply of critical materials. These materials are essential for technologies ...

Paul I. Yakovlev worked at state institutions for over 25 years, collecting the post-mortem brains of his patients.

A team of New York University researchers announced in early February 2026 that they had created “levitating” time crystals, ...

Upregulated expression of transcription factors promoting cone identity in late-stage retinal progenitors drives development of the cone-dominant retina of 13-lined ground squirrels.

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...