Results from its first run indicate that XENON1T is the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth. The sensitivity of the detector — an underground sentinel awaiting a collision that would confirm a hypothesis – stems from both its size and its ‘silence.’
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Researchers have created a system called ‘Interactive Robogami’ that lets you design a robot in minutes, and then 3-D-print and assemble it in as little as four hours.
In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.
Cryonics is the practice in which a body is ‘frozen’ shortly after death with the hope, when technology catches up, they will be able to be revived. Zhan Wenlian, who died of lung cancer aged 49 earlier this year, became the first person in China to be cryogenically frozen. Ms […]
By capturing the crystal structure of RNA polymerase during a nontraditional form of transcription — reiterative transcription — researchers have identified a new pathway used by RNA to exit an enzyme.
Female teenagers living in neighborhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show changes to their brain maturation that could indicate a higher risk of developing mental illness in adulthood.
Researchers have studied satellite photographs of Lake Catalina, an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland — and were truly amazed: Unnoticed by science as well as people living in the area, the lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years — each representing an […]
About two years ago, scientists discovered that a certain class of receptors is capable of perceiving mechanical stimuli. Now they have begun to unravel the molecular mechanisms behind the discovery.