This ‘Artificial Sun’ Just Smashed Its Own Nuclear Fusion Record.
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Heifei, China, a testbed for the long-awaited (and now delayed) ...
Scientists Are Racing to Unearth the Secrets of an Ancient Underwater World
Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.
Scientists Used a ‘Forbidden Fried Egg’ to Measure Quantum Geometry
In the forbidden fried egg image, the yolk is whats known as a Bloch sphere, and represents the classical geometry version of ...
Inside the Fight to Untether Kidney Dialysis Patients From Their Bulky Machines
For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An ...
Scientists Just Solved the Mystery Behind This Strange Celestial Object
An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...
Scientists Invented Molecular ‘Chainmail’ That’s Way Stronger Than Kevlar
Researchers at Duke University then added the ‘chainmail’ to a material known as Ultem, which is in the same family as Kevlar ...
Scientists Found Miraculously-Preserved Tattoos on the Hands of 1,000-Year-Old Mummies
One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter ...
The Cascade Mountains Have Been Hiding a Precious Natural Resource. A Research Team Just Found It.
The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake ...
Archaeologists Uncovered An Ancient ‘Boundary Stone.’ Its Inscription Could Alter Roman History.
Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...
After 15 Years, Scientists Finally Opened This Mysterious Ancient Vessel
The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that (upon analysis) was revealed to be distilled ...
Scientists Found a Strange Life Form Caught in an Evolutionary Time Loop
“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...
Archaeologists Just Found a ‘Treasure Trove’ of Era-Spanning Artifacts
Archaeologists with the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) made a series of discoveries ...