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Researchers have demonstrated a solid-state organic laser microcavity fabricated entirely by solution processing. The device ...

When Pepper the social robot was given the chance to try its hand as a teaching assistant, it showed that it can be even ...

Iguanodontians are a diverse group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous and had ...

The cuts of meat in a supermarket case can look perfectly fresh even as bacteria are already multiplying inside the package.

Three years after a team of Caltech scientists showed that pairs of entangled photons could double the resolution of a light ...

Narrow jets of luminous matter may be emitted toward Earth from the nuclei of active galaxies billions of light-years away.

Many material properties depend on how electrons are arranged inside a material. Their distribution determines, for example, ...

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe's cartographers traded on their reputation for accuracy and detail at a time ...

Heme, a bioactive form of iron, has numerous essential functions in the cell. As a key component of hemoglobin, it enables ...

Fluorescent dyes have long been used in biological research to identify and visualize structures within living cells.