A positive feedback loop may have driven carbon sequestration within the deep Pacific and shaped a cooling climate over ...

Controlling the additive concentration gradient in mixed-halide perovskite formulations affects how well they perform as ...

Bridging physics and materials engineering, Manling Sui pushes the boundaries of electron microscopy while advocating for ...

Human personality may be driven by a deeper tension between adapting to the social world and wandering through the inner one.

Fibrates in cholesterol drugs can stop liver cancers from recruiting 'traitor' immune cells, preventing immunotherapy resistance.

More than 100 years on after Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize, some confusion remains around the committee's reasons for omitting relativity. On 9 November 1922, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences voted ...

Self-powered, entirely biological constructs injected with neural precursor cells reveal the surprising flexibility of nervous systems. The notion of “adapt or die” is an underlying principle of ...

A pair of nuclear astrophysicists explore this question, assessing the risk of this outcome back when nuclear physics was still in its infancy. “Are you saying there’s a chance that when we push that ...

Discover how living materials are revolutionizing sustainable engineering, offering self-healing and responsive solutions for a greener future. Wouldn’t it be great to have a sustainable material that ...

How seven ancient viruses ranging in age from 27,000 to 48,500 years were recovered from the Siberian permafrost, and what researchers hope to learn from them. Recently, scientists have reported the ...

Scientists achieve groundbreaking room-temperature quantum coherence for 100 nanoseconds, propelling molecular qubits closer to practical quantum computing. Scientists have recently managed to ...

In this first article in a series on philosophy and science, we take a look at materialism and why it is fundamental to science. A short disclaimer before we read further: I’m a materialist.