How Much Candy Do Americans Eat in a Year?
From sweet treats to holiday indulgences, candy plays a big role in American culture, with consumption surging around Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Easter, and Christmas. Sugar,…
From sweet treats to holiday indulgences, candy plays a big role in American culture, with consumption surging around Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Easter, and Christmas. Sugar,…
Humans experience the world in three dimensions, but a collaboration in Japan has developed a way to create synthetic dimensions to better understand the fundamental…
New high-speed cellphone services have raised concerns of interference with aircraft operations, particularly as aircraft are landing at airports. The Federal Aviation Administration has assured…
The big news for Webb this week was the final insertion into orbit around the second Lagrange point. The team also turned on the High-Gain…
Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University have fabricated a material for computer components that enable the commercial viability of computers that…
Researchers from Osaka University and Osaka City University synthesize and crystallize a molecule that is otherwise too unstable to fully study in the laboratory, and…
Can machine learning be used to uncover the secrets of the quark-gluon plasma? Yes — but only with sophisticated new methods. It could hardly be…
Membranes are crucial to our cells. Every cell in your body is enclosed by one. And each of those cells contains specialized compartments, or organelles,…
Hybrid algorithms can accommodate limited qubits, lack of error correction for real-world tasks. As reported in an article in Nature Reviews Physics, instead of waiting…
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent….
The Expedition 66 crew split its research schedule between space botany and life science aboard the International Space Station yesterday. NASA Flight Engineer Thomas Marshburn…
Scientists record the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution in the world in a pristine patch of the Peruvian Amazon. If you had to guess…
The study was led by researchers from the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. Breast…
Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago. Mars once…
Study links gene expression patterns to traits that improve drought tolerance in rice plants. For many smallholder farmers in South and Southeast Asia, rice is…
For the second time in its mission so far, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through the tail of a comet. Predicted in advance…
A duo of theorists proposes a new theory to explain both the surprisingly small mass of the Higgs boson and the puzzling symmetry properties of…
A Lancaster physicist has proposed a radical solution to the question of how a charged particle, such as an electron, responded to its own electromagnetic…