New work from Georgia Tech is showing how a simple glass of wine can serve as a powerful gateway for understanding advanced research and technologies. The project, inspired by an Atlanta Science ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...

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Sometimes the coolest science experiments are also the simplest. With just a few basic components, this setup produces a ...

Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny ...

Researchers in South Korea have designed a polymer composite that keeps its structure even near 1,000 °C flames, potentially ...

A centuries-old practice of dropping frogs into milk turns out to have scientific truth, amphibian antimicrobial compounds ...

Just before the intended launch of India’s Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon’s south pole, a “technical snag” with the rocket caused it to be called off for now ...

Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

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With an advanced technology known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scientists are able to map out a material's electron energy-momentum relationship, which encodes the material's ...

An image with three panels, all tinted green. In one panel, a woman wearing protective clothing, goggles, gloves, and hair covering holds a clipboard in one arm and reaches with the other toward a ...