Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P.

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Xanadu (Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.), a world leader in photonic quantum computing, in partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical, a major Japanese chemical ...

Dr. Casey Means, the president’s nominee for surgeon general, believes the U.S. is a “nation with a broken heart” reckoning ...

Billions of birds that once filled North American skies have disappeared, and new science shows they are disappearing faster than ever.

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And then there’s the color red, which, for structural reasons, is generally difficult to achieve in chemistry. For practical ...

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.

There is another way forward. A circular economy for space applies the same principles that aims to transform modern waste policy on Earth. This means designing products to last and keep them in ...

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been the theory of iron fertilization. As temperatures rise and glaciers in ...

The NA62 Collaboration has dramatically reduced the uncertainty in its measurement of an extremely rare particle decay, in ...