Researchers in China say they have created a new silicon-free transistor that could significantly boost performance while reducing energy consumption.…
Month: April 2025
Astronomers thought the Perseus cluster was a massive-but-stable grouping of galaxies, until they found hints of a collision with another…
The earliest known domestic cat in what is now the United States perished 466 years ago in a shipwreck off…
Germ theory is the idea that pathogens can invade the human body and cause disease — and it wasn’t always…
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back in time over 10 billion years, observing an…
In a rare international blackout, all of Spain and Portugal, as well as parts of southwest France, lost power on…
For the first time ever, scientists in China have refueled an experimental nuclear reactor without shutting it down — a…
Germ theory was never a given. This now-commonplace idea — the notion that human diseases can be sparked by tiny…
It has been more than a decade since scientists discovered that Yellowstone holds huge amounts of helium gas, but questions…
Sharks have long been thought to be mute, relying on stealth to hunt their prey and avoid predators. But now,…