The brain is a mere piece of furniture in the vastness of the cosmos, subject to the same physical laws as asteroids, electrons or photons. On the surface, its three pounds of neural tissue seem to ...

In the quirky quantum world, particles can be affected by forces that they never directly encounter. A classic example is the Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect, where electrons are affected by a magnetic ...

Science learning, especially at the elementary level, is all about asking big questions and figuring out the answers through exploration. Those are skills that children come by naturally—they just ...

E-commerce giant Mercado Libre (MELI) is pulling the plug on its homegrown cryptocurrency, Mercado Coin, nearly four years after introducing it to boost customer engagement across its platform. The ...

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BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have completed the life-cycle growth experiments of rice and Arabidopsis in the Chinese space station and successfully obtained their seeds, said the Chinese Academy of ...

PCR amplification can seem straightforward, but in single-cell workflows even small miscalculations can quickly complicate results and downstream analysis. Conventional PCR systems require users to ...

Floods, droughts and heatwaves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia. In the past few days, hundreds of bushfires have ignited in south-east Australia during an extreme ...

Water, water in the air, but what drop should you drink? Buying bottled water at the airport may seem like a waste of money, but a new study suggests it might just be an investment in your health. A ...

China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change by planting trees and restoring grasslands have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows. Between 2001 ...