They are barely thicker than a human hair—yet they could significantly improve the effectiveness of inhaled medications: carrier particles in dry powder inhalers transport the active ingredient and ...

A collaborative research team has developed a novel method for forming high-performance high-entropy alloy (HEA) films on ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of constant motion, while quantum technology typically requires extreme ...

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more than 330,000 times that of our Earth, and yet there are stars in the universe ...

Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological ...

Analyze its chemistry, compare it to known minerals and voilà. But for geologists, this process can be a time-consuming ...

Chasemore Farm stretches across 340 acres of leafy Surrey countryside just outside London. On a warm midsummer day, small ...

Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off the highly ...