The reefs scattered throughout the tropics arose only after algae took up full-time residence in coral cells, supplying corals with abundant food and enabling them to build extensive shallow-water ...

In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray ...

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly ...

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NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

Quantum light sources may be closer to practical use: researchers at the University of Technology Sydney demonstrated that ...

Could atomically precise nanoclusters mimic the chemistry of particular atoms without their toxic or cost drawbacks? James ...

On May 16, 1960, Theodore Maiman made history by demonstrating the first functional laser at Hughes Research Laboratories.

Discover six fascinating science experiments you can try at home! Learn how to make a glass bubble from a CD, explore static electricity with a straw, and see a chemical reaction inflate a balloon.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Can darkness really travel faster than light? A surprising new physics experiment suggests it can—at least in a very unusual ...

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually beat the accuracy of today’s best atomic clocks ...