A t the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

The very first element on the Periodic Table may be the key to solving mysteries hiding inside the atom’s nucleus. Nuclear ...

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is said to be a "black box," with its logic obscured from human understanding—but how much does ...

A new analysis of scientific practices suggests that a researcher’s personal political views may influence the results they obtain when analyzing complex data. The study provides evidence that when ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

Nitrogen rich soils in China’s rice paddies could help farmers grow the same amount of rice with less fertilizer, if we can ...

Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

A new social-science paper delivers a surprisingly unsettling result: give dozens of expert teams the same data and the same ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...