In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Warming soils may be unlocking carbon once considered permanent, releasing additional CO 2 into the atmosphere. This subtle ...

Sugar-based amphiphilic molecules, which contain a hydrophilic sugar headgroup and a hydrophobic segment such as an alkyl chain, can assemble in water depending on their concentration, forming ...

Researchers at KRISS observed water’s rapid freeze–melt cycles under ultrahigh pressure and discovered Ice XXI, the first new ice phase found in decades. Using advanced high-pressure tech and ...

There is little reputable evidence to back their claims. But health concerns have helped power a solar backlash that ...

Manganese dioxide can convert amino acids into hydrogen cyanide (HCN) without requiring methane, a finding that solves a long ...

In this episode of The WPI Podcast, we explore why video, images, and other content generated by artificial intelligence ...

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

Physicists have demonstrated for the first time that non-spinning ferromagnets can exhibit gyroscopic behavior, as predicted by James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century. Using a levitated neodymium ...

An experiment with a carbon material in a magnetic field has revealed a novel way for electrons to move, which doesn't fully ...

A groundbreaking study from Mayo Clinic researchers, published in BME Frontiers, introduces Radon transform-based flow measurement (R-Flow)—a ...