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Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

Imagine shining a flashlight into a material and watching the light bend backward—or in an entirely unexpected direction—as ...

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have created a new type of insect cyborg that can navigate autonomously -- without wires, surgery, or stress-inducing electrical shocks. The system uses a small ultraviolet (UV) light helmet to steer ...

Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps ...

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You might finally be able to watch that 4k video without buffering, thanks to quantum mechanics and orbital angular momentum.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Multiple Central Texas viewers reached out to KXAN Sunday evening after spotting a slow-moving, glowing object drifting across the sky. Around 7:07 p.m., a bright light that “moved ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...