CMS at CERN Oxygen collisions at the LHC could have created a quark–gluon plasma. (Courtesy: Matin Durrani) Colliding oxygen ...

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New MRI technique simultaneously maps multiple structural, physiological and molecular biomarkers to characterize brain ...

Zoey Hu, Dahyeon Lee and Ben Lewis, who are holding replicas of an optical laser cavity. (Courtesy: R Jacobson/NIST) There ...

Exploring the first crewed Artemis mission, the future of lunar exploration and how spaceflight could help inspire greener ...

Switchable free-space skyrmions Researchers used a nonlinear metasurface to experimentally demonstrate that skyrmions can be switched between electric and magnetic modes in free-space toroidal ...