Prologue: Do Scientists Need to Be 'Smart'?“To be a scientist, you must be 'smart.'”Hearing this, you might think, “So ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has exposed a turbulent stellar nursery 3,300 light-years from Earth, revealing young stars, hidden protostars, violent outflows, and vast structures carved into ...

Webb telescope star formation images reveal NGC 7129, a stellar nursery 3,300 light-years away in Cepheus, where newborn ...

PLCL elastomer containing 2 wt% graphene that elongated by 163% before breaking and heated from 24.2 °C to 50.6 °C within 60 ...

Researchers at UCLA have developed an optical-neural processor that uses light to analyse multiple video streams ...

At f/8, every lens produces an identical 10.7-micron diffraction blur on your sensor regardless of focal length or aperture ...

In the race to build ever smaller and more complex computer chips, one of the most stubborn enemies is not the transistor ...

UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. Its speed, low energy demands, and resistance to ...

NASA] NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow scientists to explore wide swaths of the ...

Old-fashioned striped barbershop poles turn in place on a vertical axis, but humans typically perceive the stripes moving ...

An overarching goal of ultrafast science is to enable researchers to watch structural changes in matter on their natural timescale. Experimentally ...

Even a metal plate that looks smooth and uniform at a glance is made up of numerous "small crystal rooms (crystal grains)" ...