Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

The presence of microplastics in marine environments disrupts carbon cycles and contributes to climate change, affecting ecosystems and greenhouse gas dynamics.

A new way to measure the temperatures of objects by studying the effect of their black-body radiation on Rydberg atoms has ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day ...

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...

The spaser is a proposed nanoscale source of optical fields that is being investigated in a number of leading laboratories around the world. If realized, spasers could find a wide range of ...

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Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is at the forefront of advancements in breast cancer treatment by pioneering a "right-sizing surgery", potentially eliminating the need for surgery, chemotherapy, ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have developed a cost-effective, non-destructive microscopy technique to study cancer cell metabolism at the single-cell level. Published in Biophotonics ...