Emojis serve as modern digital tools that enhance text-based communication by adding emotional and visual context. Rooted in long-standing interpersonal practices, they help compensate for the lack of ...

A new method offers a simple, safe, and practical way to create cyclopropanes—a key feature that increases the potency of many drugs and drug-candidates—within molecules. Credit: National Cancer ...

The merger of two neutron stars is among the leading candidate sites for synthesizing the heavier elements on the periodic table through the rapid-neutron-capture process. The image shows two neutron ...

Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through our Solar System. In this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the comet appears in front of a ...

Aqua-Fi would use radio waves to send data from a diver’s smart phone to a "gateway" device attached to their gear, which would send the data via a light beam to a computer at the surface that is ...

Quantum information plays a vital role in connecting several branches of physics. Specifically, the theory of quantum error correction, which explains how to protect ...

Extremely precise measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Coma cluster of galaxies provide new evidence for the Universe’s faster-than-expected rate of expansion. (Photo courtesy ...

Soft machines, made from flexible materials such as soft plastics, could be beneficial in fields like nuclear cleanup, medicine, and space exploration. However, their real-world use has been limited ...

Caption:MIT researchers created a periodic table of machine learning that shows how more than 20 classical algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse ...

Scientists have discovered two enormous structures deep within Earth’s mantle. Research from Utrecht University reveals these regions are hotter and older than the surrounding sunken tectonic ...

Kawasaki has unveiled a groundbreaking innovation in personal mobility with CORLEO, a robotic horse designed to tackle all terrains with exceptional agility. Powered by its four robotic legs, CORLEO ...

Optical computing utilizes light’s speed to perform vector-matrix operations more efficiently. Harnessing the principles of light interference enables parallel computations, a key feature of quantum ...