Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

For more than a century, photographers have had to choose which part of a scene should be tack sharp and which parts would ...

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For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Despite their size, the robots can navigate liquids, respond to their environment and operate without external control.

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

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