In a happy twist of fate, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The findings are ...

Asked about gender stereotypes, she says: "There's certainly that expectation that as the mum, you are the go-to parent; you ...

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Physicists have long pondered if there’s a way to form glass with minimal entropy, known as “ideal glass.” A team of scientists may have proven its possible.

Atomic structure of the hexagonal diamond. Image from the study. Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer ...

An overview of Pei Zhong’s work over the past several decades reveals how fundamental engineering research — often done far ...

Researchers in China have made what they claim to be the first samples of pure hexagonal diamond, a theorised rare variant of ...

A team led by Prof. DENG Dehui and Prof. YU Liang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, along with Prof. CUI Yi from ...

Harvard University historian Benjamin Wilson's piece in the Bulletin on Hans Bethe and Richard Garwin fails not because his ...

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Chinese astronomers have identified a pair of young, blue "baby star clusters" on the outskirts of the Milky Way, approximately 45,000 light-years from Earth. They have named the twin clusters Emei-1 ...