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Twelve early-career researchers at UNSW Sydney have received grants from the Australian Research Council to kickstart their innovative ...
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A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
What if a robot could show us how the brain keeps us balanced? UBC scientists built one—and their discovery could help shape ...
In Millikan's experiment, an oil drop became a microscopic messenger, revealing the quantized nature of electric charge, a cornerstone of modern physics. This ingenious experiment, conducted by Robert ...
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...
A study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has revealed a previously unknown pathway plants use to detect ...
In search of a united scientific theory, a new quantum gravity paper might have proposed an interesting aspect that made the ...