We're One Step Closer to Blazingly Fast Computer Chips Made Out of Silicene
Move over graphene, there's a new transistor on the block.
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Move over graphene, there's a new transistor on the block.
Scientists publish something that could help us tap into the invisible magnet world surrounding our dull daily lives.
Joins Cookie Monster and photos of Jennifer from Back To The Future in the 62-mile-high club.
If they don't brand this thing 'The Tearjerker' then it is a failed mission entirely.
Visualisation video made by someone who has synesthesia shows what its like living in a world where one can see music.
New report shows which nations are the most at risk – and the most ready to respond if nature strikes.
These images are an artistic, yet thoroughly researched, interpretation of how a skeleton can change over time when affected by bone cancer. They form the basis for a new UK-researched project to help architects accommodate rapid changes in buildings. Read more >
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a gigantic star-searching array that's just started construction in Cerro Pachon, Chile. It's mission when built is to hunt down the elusive 'Planet X', which is thought hide in our Solar System. Read more >
Quantum Entanglement can provide a means of impenetrable encryption, but the hardware has always been too bulky to make it practical. That's no longer true.
From aerogels nearly as light as air to metamaterials that manipulate light, here are six supermaterials that have the potential to transform the world of the future.
This is a hydrophobic knife slicing through a water droplet. Are we really sure science can explain what my eyes are seeing? Read More >>
Last March, scientists announced they had discovered our first direct evidence of the Big Bang. The results of a joint analysis released today make it official: It was all just cosmic dust.
While word was still getting out he had passed away at the age of 76, something rather disturbing was happening at the hospital. Einstein's brain had been stolen, and that is just the beginning of the story.
A recent study in a well-respected journal comes to the worrisome conclusion that the world is running out of food.
Researchers were able to pinpoint individual credit card users by examining just a few simple variables.
There may be a humble alternative to energy-heavy nuclear-fusion processes. It's called sonofusion, and it involves bubbles.
