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Scientists use atomic switches to reliably connect individual molecules to electrodes

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...

Stranger Things Finally Explained How The Upside Down Works, And The Duffers Told Us How They Decided Who Would Figure It Out

Here’s how Matt Duffer explained the major turning point in the history of Stranger Things: ...
Science Daily

Large Hadron Collider finally explains how fragile matter forms

In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally ...
Science Daily

“Purifying” photons: Scientists found a way to clean light itself

A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University ...

Anything-goes 'anyons' may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

Q&A: The science of snowflakes—how hexagonal symmetry and environmental changes create endless designs

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...
Nanowerk

Chemists create a gold nanocluster with an open channel running through its atomic core

A 40-atom gold nanocluster breaks from gold's signature dense packing, forming square atomic planes with a central channel that accelerates electron relaxation about 80x.

The DCU is Adding Another Superman-Level Hero, Who’s Still Never Appeared in Live Action

The DCU got things started with Superman and Creature Commandos, which introduced a number of high-powered individuals to the ...
Pressenza

Seeing Heat: How We Learned to Photograph the Hidden Vibrations of Atoms in 2D Materials

In recent years, heat has stopped being just a number on a thermometer and has become something we can literally see at the atomic scale. In 2025, an ...