Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce…
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Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or…
Titanium is a strong, resilient and relatively light metal. Its properties have also been well studied; scientists know a great…
The big idea My colleagues and I have developed a flexible, stretchable electronic device that runs machine-learning algorithms to continuously collect and…
Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped…
November 15 2022 marks a milestone for our species, as the global population hits 8 billion. Just 70 years ago, within…
A dominant view in science is that there is a mathematical truth structuring the universe. It is assumed that the…
The story could have been straight out of science fiction – scientists have grown human brain cells in a lab,…
Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy…
The big idea A new type of material can learn and improve its ability to deal with unexpected forces thanks…