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Two years after physicists predicted that tin should be able to form a mesh just one atom thick, researchers say that they have made it. The thin film, called stanene, […]

Six years might seem like a long time to spend piecing together the structure of a scrap of tissue vastly smaller than a bead of sweat. But that is how […]

Injecting single cells with spheres of fluorescent dye could open new research and treatment avenues using light.

Cells contain an ocean of twisting and turning RNA molecules. Now researchers are working out the structures — and how important they could be.

You could say that the silence has been deafening. Since its beginnings more than half a century ago, the dedicated search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has failed to detect the […]

Spheres of carbon-60 responsible for mysterious cosmic-light features.

Microbe-filled solutions could be repurposed as small motors under certain conditions.

Scientists have the tools to end the epidemic. They just need better ways to use them.

Working out how to build ethical robots is one of the thorniest challenges in artificial intelligence. Real-life roboticists are citing Asimov’s laws a lot these days: their creations are becoming […]