In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

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A nuclear fusion company building a reactor in America is targeting Australia for international expansion and says it could ...

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

Scientists still struggle to understand consciousness, aging, memory formation and why humans hiccup or yawn, revealing a ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...