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For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

Scientists have confirmed that, within the swirling dust storms common on Mars' surface, small electrical discharges occur as ...

The problem was with software that calculates the elevation of a plane. Solar particles from the Sun can mess with the ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected a "high-energy neutrino emission from within the Milky Way," according to AAAS.

People infected with HIV must take antiretroviral drugs for life. But engineered antibodies appeared to suppress the virus ...

Dark matter is one of the great enigmas of the universe and, in efforts to determine its existence and nature, a new study ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

"Mineral-only" sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of "chemicals," a belief that ...