Researchers in the US have studied the physics of how cutting onions can produce a tear-jerking reaction.

“Our results are especially interesting for applications where one wants high resolution over a relatively large field of view,” Zia says. “This is important at many scales from microscopy to ...

Predictive model accelerates the development of nanoparticles as potential drug carriers for targeting neurodegenerative ...

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While error correction should become more effective as the number of physical qubits in a logical qubit increases, adding ...

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...

Built on UHV Design’s Production Linear Shift Mechanism range (PLSM), new linear actuator allows heavy objects to be moved ...

The order outlines several previous grants that it says have not aligned with the Trump administration’s current policies, ...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are honoured for their work on metal-organic frameworks (Courtesy: Niklas Elmehed for Nobel Prize Outreach ) Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never ...

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns ...

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...