Scientists have created robots smaller than a grain of salt that can sense their surroundings, make decisions, and move ...

The brain of the robot is a tiny electronic computer that features a processor, memory and sensors, making it the first ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most ...

LEDs are all around us and come in quite a few different forms, but this new discovery just might open up a whole new realm ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key ...

Physicists show how microscopic particles can harness fluctuations and external forces to minimize transport energy and even extract usable work. A particle (red sphere) is guided from left to its ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth’s nearest star produces its most ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising viral shortcut that turns moving cells into delivery vehicles for infection. Instead ...

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