A research group at The University of Tokyo has discovered a new principle by which helical chiral molecules acquire spin ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are fascinating states of matter that emerge when atoms or molecules are cooled to extremely ...

The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, ...

For nearly 200 years, scientists clung to a simple idea: ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface, ...

Neural networks are computing systems designed to mimic both the structure and function of the human brain. Caltech researchers have been developing a neural network made out of strands of DNA instead ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum technology, the researchers say. reading time 2 minutes After relying on an ...

Scientists at UC Riverside have precisely measured the electric dipole moment of aluminum monochloride (AlCl), a milestone that replaces decades of theoretical assumptions with experimental evidence. ...

In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the ...