By the end of the century, waves driven by rising seas could crash into Rapa Nui’s most sacred shoreline, flooding Ahu…

A breakthrough in spintronics reveals that material defects can be harnessed to boost device efficiency, overturning decades of assumptions. Scientists have…

Physicists have, for the first time, shown that even a single photon obeys one of nature’s strictest rules: conservation of angular…

Researchers heated gold to unprecedented temperatures without melting it, overturning a century-old theory and paving the way for breakthroughs in fusion…

Researchers have uncovered a new mechanism in photochemistry showing that a molecule’s microenvironment can strongly influence how it reacts to light.…

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Scientists have discovered natural compounds that can suppress the bitterness of artificial sweeteners. Some artificial sweeteners—especially saccharin and acesulfame potassium (acesulfame…

Low-oxygen air both prevented and reversed symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease. Scientists at the Broad Institute and Mass…