When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

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As previously reported, there's an official industry standard for brewing espresso, courtesy of the Specialty Coffee ...

An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that ...

Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...

New camera techniques transform biological imaging In a nutshell Optimizing camera settings can provide better images of ...

With today's data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow.

Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making the systems simpler and more affordable to build.

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in quantum physics by using artificial intelligence to discover a simpler way to ...

A spectroscopic method for analysing the extremely fast movements of electrons in solids can now be used much more easily than before thanks to a new approach. Researchers from the University of ...