Researchers develop stretchable, self-healing and illuminating material for ‘invincible’ light-emitting devices
Imagine a flexible digital screen that heals itself when it cracks, or a light-emitting robot that locates survivors in dark, dangerous environments or carries...
Physicists discovered a new whirling state of matter in a chemical element
In a recent study, scientists found that the material neodymium behaves in a complex magnetic way that has not been observed before in any...
Tracing the evolution of hemoglobin
A new study has identified the evolutionary “missing link” through which hemoglobin evolved from simple precursors. They found that the rise of modern hemoglobin's...
This region in the brain is the home to your stress
A new study offers detailed insight that may aid people in dealing with the debilitating sense of fear and anxiety that stress can evoke.
Scientists...
A surprising correlation of the blobs with fluctuations of the magnetic field
Blobs are coherent structures of enhanced plasma pressure relative to the background plasma, which has a filamentary structure, as they typically extend much further...
The asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ angle
Almost 66 million years ago, after a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid crashed into the ocean near what’s now the port town of Chicxulub, Mexico. The impact...
Scientists see-through glass frogs’ translucent camouflage
Glass frog (family Centrolenidae), any of a group of tree frogs found in the New World tropics, some species of which have transparent bellies...
Largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth discovered
A team of volcanologists and ocean explorers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) have...
Physicists produced a giant entangled state of 15 trillion atoms
Quantum technologies use entanglement to outperform classical technologies, and often employ strong cooling and isolation to protect entangled entities from decoherence by random interactions.
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Earth’s magnetic field is gradually weakening
Earth's magnetic field is essential to life on our planet. It is a mind-boggling and dynamic force that shields us from cosmic radiation and...
Why is it so hard to wake up on cold mornings?
Dark, cold mornings can make getting out of bed a harder task than it already is. Staying snuggled under a warm duvet is a...
COVID-19 could represent a new opportunity for a more diverse future
According to a new study, this COVID-19 pandemic could benefit us with a more diverse future. Scientists believe that with proper planning, we could...