Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling ...

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is advancing the ability to quickly clean up Earth’s ...

This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.

An area of the brain called Heschl's gyrus - long known for handling early auditory processing - plays a far greater role in interpreting speech than previously understood. It helps interpret the ...

A new, implantable nanosensor enables real-time monitoring of levodopa. It may allow dosing challenges in Parkinson's ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

It’s July 2025. After a week of building tensions between Russia and the United States, following what seems to be a failed meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Donald Trump posts an oddly ...

Two-photon imaging and ocular dominance mapping. A. Optical windows for imaging of two macaques. Green crosses indicate the regions for viral vector injections, and yell ...