Scientists have developed a magnetocaloric heat pump that matches conventional systems in cost, weight, and performance, eliminating harmful refrigerants. By optimizing materials and design, the pump ...

The science advisor for “Interstellar” discusses the film’s impact, and how new information about gravitational waves could ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Engineers have developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.

After analyzing the data, researchers found that people had greater mental well-being in spaces where they could see or hear ...

Each year we dedicate the final issue of Science News to reviewing the big stories in science, technology and medicine. And each year, I marvel at the many ...

Researchers have developed a technique called "atomic spray painting" using molecular beam epitaxy to strain-tune potassium ...

In the 1970s, the writer Andrei Amalrik characterized the secret power of his fellow dissidents in the Soviet Union: “They ...

Briola and co-authors determined the structure of the human CTF18 clamp loader bound to PCNA to high resolution, analyzed the structure, and tested a new mechanism involving a human-specific Ctf18 ...