About 1.5 billion light-years from Earth, a galaxy called PKS 2155-304 is giving astronomers more questions than answers. After studying nearly two decades of observations,...

Scientists have created a new family of artificial enzymes that can build important chemical bonds with extremely high precision. The advance could eventually provide cleaner...

Scientists have developed a new type of electronic skin that can detect touch, pressure and even nearby objects, while allowing its sensitivity to be...

Scientists have developed a new catalyst that uses 75% less platinum while delivering almost the same performance as pure platinum, potentially removing one of...

We usually think batteries wear out because we repeatedly charge and use them. But batteries spend most of their lives doing nothing, and new research...

Computer chipmakers have spent years strengthening processors against attacks that exploit the way modern CPUs predict what they will need to do next. But MIT...

Scientists have shown that sunlight can be used to create quantum entanglement, a surprising advance that could eventually help make quantum technologies more energy...

Scientists have developed a new 3D printing technique that can create soft materials programmed to either stretch or shrink when heated. The advance could eventually...

Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury – as the rise of artificial intelligence has reminded us. The human brain is no exception. Comprising roughly 2%...

SIM cards are normally trusted parts of our phones and other connected devices. But new research shows that if a SIM card is malicious or...

From spears and the invention of the wheel to smartphones and robots, human societies have been building and using tools from the beginning. Human tool...

Scientists in Finland have demonstrated the first fully solution-processed solid-state polariton laser, potentially opening a simpler and cheaper path toward advanced laser and photonic...

Protoplanets are celestial objects in the act of forming into full planets within the gas and dust disks surrounding hot, young stars. These objects, often...

Physicists at the University of Bonn and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) have successfully created a one-dimensional gas out of light particles, also known...

Hector’s dolphins, the world’s smallest marine dolphins, are only about 1.4 meters long, but new research has revealed they are far more acrobatic and...

Folk belief says there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but new technology is turning that idea on its head...

For biochemists, one big question has always been: which came first—oxygen-producing photosynthesis or oxygen-using metabolism? A recent accidental discovery may hold the answer. Photosynthesis is the...