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Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. The post Star Catcher Is About to Beam Power Between Two Satellites for the First Time appeared first on Si...

Scientists identify a neural circuit linking the biological clock to dopaminergic neurons and the mushroom body to control wakefulness.

A new study reveals functional brain wiring changes separate Alzheimer's from normal aging before symptoms appear.

A new machine-learning "speech clock" estimates a person's chronological age from their speech, drawing links between older-sounding speech and cognitive decline.

A phenomenon known as true polar wander, different to the movement of the magnetic poles, may be more common and more dramatic than previously known

Working in close collaboration, researchers from Paderborn University, the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have made a breakthrough in quantum communication. In their recently published paper in the journa...

Physicists have used radioactive lutetium to create what they say is the most accurate atomic clock ever, keeping time perfectly up to 19 decimal places.

A new computational model reveals why modern wide-gamut displays look different to different viewers due to retinal cone variability and lens aging.

Music therapy alters brain activity and calms drug and alcohol cravings by modulating frontal beta and alpha EEG waves.

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A new defensive tool cuts the cables to stop the drones

Psychologists have long studied the deficits associated with being raised in adversity. They're now discovering the hidden strengths that can emerge in those settings.

An attempt by Anthropic's Claude failed to prove the Riemann hypothesis, but it did produce something genuinely useful: inspiration.

Many systems in nature can settle into several different stable states, with the final state depending on their starting conditions. However, the boundaries separating these states are often far more complicated than the...

Dried amniotic membranes from donated placentas can be wrapped around delicate nerves during prostate cancer surgery to hasten the time to a first erection after the procedure

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, there is some hard-hitting popular science to look forward to this mo...

SpaceXs changing priorities, the war in Ukraine and a lack of competitors are all causing a launch crisis that might last years

In the conventional diagram of an atom, the center depicts a nucleus-a spherical cluster of protons and neutrons. But that sphere is a simplification: nuclei can deform into exotic shapes that appear more like a pear, fo...

Scientists have identified two new species of large Australian stick insects, including one that lays extraordinary lidded eggs never before recorded in the group. The discovery also revealed that a familiar stick insect...

A new protective fabric boosted strawberry yields by as much as 3.56 times while blocking insects and still allowing sunlight, rain, and airflow to reach the plants. Originally inspired by research on military clothing, ...

Light scattered in tissue usually ceases to be a useful source of information. But what if, instead of forcing it to travel along a single path, we allowed it to wander a little differently each time? Scientists from ICT...

A proposed qubit made with superfluid helium could cut quantum computing error rates by around 100 times by shielding quantum information from common forms of electromagnetic noise. If experiments confirm the predictions...

UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. Its speed, low energy demands, and resistance to attacks could make it...