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The search for life on Mars or on icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus may capture more attention, but…

Researchers at Rice University have found that extremely small wrinkles in graphene can alter how the material behaves electrically. The…

One of the big tradeoffs with Xteink’s pocket-friendly e-readers is a lack of easy access to ebooks. On a Kindle…

In 1989, Voyager 2 discovered six previously unknown moons around Neptune. Five of them are tiny satellites that travel just…

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can’t say, but a Redditor has legit-looking…

Dinosaurs are often remembered for their enormous size. Tyrannosaurus rex was an imposing predator, while dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus reached…

Scientists have captured previously unseen plasma vortices swirling across the surface of the Sun, revealing tiny structures that could help…

Quantum materials could reshape fields as varied as high-performance computing, secure communication, sensitive detection, and energy production. Yet one persistent…

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final recently, a different kind…

High-energy whirlpools speckle the sun’s surface.  New telescope images show characteristic swirls of magnetized plasma across a 19-kilometer-wide patch of the sun’s surface. The observations, reported August 5 in Nature,…