Physicists in China report that they have built a tractor beam capable of moving objects on the macroscale. In the latest issue of Optics Express, the group reports that when using a 90mW laser, their […]

Not just inspired by chaos theory, but directly created from its mathematical principles. A team of Italian scientists has figured out a way of turning the striking, complex twisting shapes of chaos theory into actual […]

MIT engineers have developed ultralight and thinner-than-hair fabric solar cells that transform any surface into a power generator within seconds of plastering them. The durable and flexible solar cells are pasted to a super-light fabric, […]

An astronomy professor from Johns Hopkins University has given us the chance to zoom way out in both time and space with an interactive map of the observable universe. “In this map, we are just […]

Diffusion models generate incredible images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, causes ink to spread through water. Ask DALL·E 2, an image generation system created by OpenAI, to paint a picture […]

“Music so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.” “Music,” the trailblazing composer Julia Perry wrote, “has a unifying effect on the peoples of […]

Esquire speaks to Professor David Hughes, who consulted on the original “The Last of Us” videogame. At the beginning of the first episode of The Last Of Us, there’s a fictional 1968 TV broadcast in […]

Andrew Parker has produced some of the brightest hues in the world. So, what’s his secret? Andrew Parker, an English inventor, artist and zoologist at the University of Oxford, thinks color is not a thing. […]

With beginnings, endings, and new discoveries, space was a busy place in 2022. New Atlas looks back at the best space stories of the past 12 months. Once in full operation, the James Webb Space […]

An experiment tests whether the gene-editing technology can stop the virus from replicating, which would ultimately wipe out the infection. In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at […]

Proposed by Qian Xuesen in the ‘90s as a new scientific discipline, the “meta-synthetic approach” to study the “open complex giant system” still exerts influence over thinking on high-tech social management, smart cities, and state […]

The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly. One of the challenges of turning test tube Crispr discoveries into cures for […]

AI is a key technological enabler of aging research and the only hope to move the longevity progress fast enough for the existing generation to live longer than nature currently permits. Helping people live healthier […]

The find makes China the third country to discover a new mineral on the Moon, and the country says it’s analyzed the soil for rare helium-3. China has discovered a crystal from the Moon made […]

“It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image.” NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is designed to probe the farthest frontiers of […]

The first full-colour picture from the new James Webb Space Telescope has been released – and it doesn’t disappoint. The image is said to be the deepest, most detailed infrared view of the Universe to […]

The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA. In just a decade, CRISPR has become one of the most celebrated inventions […]

NASA announced that it is putting together an independent team of researchers this fall to study sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, the updated term now used to refer to UFOs. The space agency […]

Thanks to advances in neuroscience and microelectronics engineering, we finally have a tool that will let us begin to reverse engineer the wonders of the brain. People often think of technology as applied science, but […]

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors. When it comes to conventional machine learning, computer scientists have […]

In the jungle of Suriname, the German-born Swiss naturalist, entomologist and botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian discovered insect metamorphosis. This animation celebrates her many notable contributions to the natural sciences in an age when such […]

Imagine if we could turn back the clock on age-related illnesses by reprogramming our cells to be younger? In a recent Nature Aging paper, Genentech and Salk Institute scientists show that cellular reprogramming techniques safely […]

Researchers at Texas A&M believe that algal biofuels could reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate change, alleviate petroleum dependency and transform the bio-economy. Professor Joshua Yuan said: “The commercialisation of algal biofuel has been hindered by […]

UFO sightings are “frequent and continuing,” Pentagon officials said at the first public hearing on the subject since the 1960s. Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown […]

The experiment suggests that cyanobacteria ‘batteries’ using sunlight and water could run small devices. Researchers have discovered how to use cyanobacteria—commonly called blue-green algae—to continuously power a microprocessor for a span of more than six […]

The Event Horizon Telescope has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The image, which was taken in the light of submillimeter radio waves, confirms that […]

In 2021, a team of hologram doctors was “holoported” to space to visit astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA has revealed in a new post. The hologram teams, led by NASA flight surgeon […]

Phenomena fuses art and science together to explore naturally occurring patterns, and the fundamental forces of nature that create them, to take us on an ambitious, innovative, and psychedelic journey through the fabric of the […]

He Jiankui created the first gene-edited children. The price was his career. And his freedom. The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a […]

On March 16, NASA announced that one of the most critical steps in the commissioning process had been completed — the alignment of all 18 individual mirrors on James Webb’s primary mirror. Meanwhile, as optics […]