Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Engineers have created new technology that can move cells without touching them, enabling critical tasks that currently require large pieces of lab equipment to be carried out on a benchtop device.

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

It's not the clearest of diagrams, so we're going to have to make the assumption that the wheels are in contact, and have a ...

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Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Osaka Metropolitan University physicists present a case study of the critical phenomena around Argyres-Douglas singularity of N = 2 susy made at (𝐴1, 𝐴4𝑘−1), 𝑘=1,2 realized by one unitary matrix ...

Quantum critical points are thresholds that mark the transition of materials between different electronic phases at absolute ...

In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged ...