At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of ...

We’ve long marveled at how efficiently plants convert sunlight into energy—but no one guessed they were using quantum mechanics to do it. In this episode, we speak with Greg Engel, a pioneering ...

Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation is part of a broader push to propel domestic computer chip manufacturing ...

The DAMIC-M experiment searches for these elusive signals 5,000 feet below the surface of the French Alps. Though it did not ...

In her new book 'Divided Parties, Strong Leaders,' UChicago political scientist Ruth Bloch Rubin analyzes factional splits in ...

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Photophoresis occurs when gas molecules bounce more forcefully off the warm side of an object than the cool side, creating ...

One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system; it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to ...

Podcast Big Brains podcast: How microplastics are invading our bodies Scientist examines how these particles have gotten inside our brains and organs, causing health issues August 07, 2025 ...