Acid rain sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and ...

Savannah Lord, the clinical director of a Burlington nonprofit mental health clinic, got an email from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont this month and was immediately alarmed, as were many of her ...

Japan's Innovation Center of NanoMedicine reports on a new stealth coating for tiny medicine-carrying particles that doesn't depend on PEG-style shields. By locking positive and negative charges ...

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter ...