Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could ...

Optimizing tree architecture is a long-standing challenge in fruit production, as branch orientation directly affects light ...

The world feels ordinary until a single detail shifts your perspective. A quiet fact can linger in your thoughts, reshaping ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Past research has found that exposure to bright lights and high levels of noise can alter both physiological processes and ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...