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Feb. 3, 2025 — Electrochemical reaction-based stimuli-responsive materials are shaping up the era of innovative display devices. By embedding luminescent ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — New assessment warns area the size of the USA will become too hot during extreme heat events for even healthy young humans to maintain a safe body temperature if we hit 2 degrees ...

In a year that will see many AI achievements and battles, let’s not forget that not all AI research makes the front pages.

Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. January 27, 2025 • A recent study in the journal Nature unveiled new proteins ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

The textile entrepreneurs Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer live in a 1910s Ridgewood town house with their two young daughters ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward delve into the psychology of the seven sins. Last up: sloth.

He is a certified display calibrator through the Imaging Science Foundation. We’ve updated this guide with new portable monitors we saw at CES 2025 that we plan to test soon. We’ve included ...

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