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The first hints of what's behind the seemingly illogical mismatch between photochemical reactivity and absorptivity could ...

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A new study suggests that a simple change to how online matchmaking platforms display profiles can significantly improve user ...

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Hawking radiation is a form of radiation emitted by black holes, as theoretically predicted by Stephen Hawking. It suggests ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

India’s decision to promote coal gasification deserves broad support. But financial incentives alone will not determine its ...

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...