Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

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Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These ...

To store heat for days, weeks, or months, you need to trap the energy in the bonds of a molecule that can later release heat on demand. The approach to this particular chemistry problem is called ...

Chinese scientists break a historic barrier and achieve the highest plasma density in a nuclear fusion reactor.

Harnessing the power of the sun holds the promise of providing future societies with energy abundance. To make this a reality, fusion researchers need to address many technological challenges. For ...

Jennifer Smith, a sixth and seventh grade science teacher at Mahomet-Seymour Jr. High School, is one of 12 teachers ...

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For ...

Using a proprietary high-density working fluid, the Cornwood installation is designed to demonstrate how pumped storage can be deployed on lower-elevation sites, opening up new development ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

At the beginning of the long winding road up to Bogus Basin, just north of Camel’s Back Park, a developer envisioned 12 townhomes and five single-family houses. At least, that was the plan, according ...