Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide. For decades, mammography screening has been one of the most important tools...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that brings together two long-separate ideas in quantum physics, offering a clearer picture of how...

Engineers at McGill University have developed a new class of ultra-thin, shape-shifting materials that can move, fold, and reconfigure themselves—much like animated origami. The breakthrough...

As cities around the world struggle with rising energy demand, controlling heat from sunlight has become a major challenge. A large portion of the heat...

Engineers at the University of California, Irvine have created a new wireless transceiver that can send and receive data at speeds comparable to fiber-optic...

A new artificial intelligence tool called DiaCardia may soon make it possible to screen for prediabetes using only data from an electrocardiogram (ECG)—with no...

Prediabetes is a condition that affects millions of people and increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. It is a warning sign that the...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, Earth looked nothing like it does today. The air contained no oxygen, the oceans were acidic and filled with...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a powerful new 3D-printing system that could transform how large...

Tiny plastic particles are turning up almost everywhere, including in drinking water. Now, researchers in South Korea have developed a new filtration technology that can...

Diamonds are famous for their beauty, but their real superpower may lie in electronics. Beyond sparkle, diamond is one of the toughest and most efficient...

Where did the carbon in our bodies and the oxygen we breathe come from? Astronomers have been asking this question for decades, and a new...

While it may seem like the sun is stationary with the planets moving around it, the sun is actually orbiting the Milky Way galaxy...

Ice in space, long believed to be completely disordered like frozen water without structure, is turning out to be more complex. New research from University...

Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about...

In certain alloys, exposure to proton irradiation can extend the material’s lifetime, study finds. Radiation nearly always degrades the materials exposed to it, hastening their...

For decades, scientists have imagined planet formation as a calm and orderly process. The picture was simple: young stars surrounded by flat, pancake-like disks of...