Understanding what complex chemical measurements reveal about materials and reactions can take weeks or months of analysis.

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Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical ...

Two friends out walking their dogs along the eastern coast of Scotland unexpectedly found an archaeological goldmine. After wind gusts as strong as 55 mph blew away sand on the dunes of a beach near ...

A newly released public opinion survey reveals that about half of Americans say they are informed about disruptions to ...

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development ...

Outside the pub, you will see a blue plaque memorialising the 28th of February 1953 – on this day, Watson and Crick came to The Eagle to announce the fact that they had finally cracked the double ...

Imagine cutting a strand of hair into one hundred thousand tiny slices. Now imagine something even smaller than one of those slices. That is the scale of nanote ...

The science communicator, a disciple of Stephen Hawking, believes it will be decades before we colonize Mars. But he says we ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how scientists understand proteins—these are working molecules that drive nearly every process in the human body, from cell growth and immune defense to ...