A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

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Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Sunlight makes microplastics leak hidden chemicals into water, creating pollution that spreads far beyond plastic pieces.

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Researchers found evidence that a companion star may be influencing Betelgeuse, explaining why the star’s brightness changes ...

Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body and has an important role in healthy tissue as well as in a range of prevalent diseases. Medical research and diagnostics hence call for means ...