Many parents have mixed feelings about the unrestricted use of artificial intelligence (AI) for schoolwork. They are concerned about the potential impact on their child's ability to learn but also don ...

Supercontinuum light sources—often called "white lasers" because they emit a broad, continuous rainbow of colors—are ...

People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: ...

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

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) has announced its 20th public data release (DR20), delivering a dramatic expansion of ...

Scientists have long known that ant colonies sometimes seem to move as one. A nest that appears quiet can suddenly erupt into activity, with workers throughout the colony springing into motion almost ...

A new study by ancient DNA researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, used paleogenomics to create a genetic roadmap to help guide the restoration of another iconic species once on the ...

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

For the first time, scientists have observed a three-dimensional woven structure forming naturally inside a crystal, revealing a previously unknown way in which matter can organize itself.

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

Agriculture covers more than 40% of Earth's habitable land and plays a central role in both climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet the impact of agriculture is far from evenly distributed across ...

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