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Unlike coffee, whisky dries leaving an almost entirely uniform stain. Now researchers have exploited this property to make memristors.

A teenager asked that age-old question on TikTok, creating a viral backlash, and then, a thoughtful scientific debate.

A look at the tech behind NFTs and crypto

Stop throwing your food away.

No matter how much we’d like to eradicate SARS-CoV-2, it may be better to settle for other forms of control.

The James Webb Space Telescope has the potential to rewrite the history of the cosmos and reshape humanity’s position within it. But first, a lot of things have to work just right.

A podcast game to help you determine what is, or isn't, AI.

So far, panic about the new Covid variant has outpaced actual information.

In measuring carbon emissions, it’s easy to confuse morality and science.

If the inability to time travel were a fundamental part of our Universe, you’d expect equally fundamental physics behind that rule.

The best AI chess computer outperforms the best human chess players. Yet the most supreme chess play on Earth comes from a human, helped by AI.

Science and technology have evolved, but some things may always be beyond human knowledge.

From buses in Bogotá to cycling through Cambridge, we can learn valuable lessons from how countries across the world deliver sustainable transport.

Solving the mysteries of scent

"E-commerce sales jumped nearly 32 percent in 2020 compared to the prior year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data," reports Politico — and this year "online sales are on track to outpace that record..." "Now, cities, climate scientists and companies are trying to figure out the consequences...

Time was found to flow differently between the top and bottom of a single cloud of atoms. Physicists hope that such a system will one day help them combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of…

The transcendental number π is as familiar as it is ubiquitous, but how does Euler’s number e transcend the ordinary?

Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints on how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time.

Quantum bits are fussy and fragile. Useful quantum computers will need to use an error-correction technique like the one that was recently demonstrated on a real machine.

Ana Caraiani seeks to unify mathematics through her work on the ambitious Langlands program.

Without fungi we don’t have bread, chocolate, cheese, soy sauce, beer or wine. They are also crucial to protecting our climate

Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints on how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time.

On November 15, 1971, Intel publicly debuted the first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004, with an advertisement in Electronic News. Fifty years later, here’s a look at its legacy—and how the 4004 stacks up against a modern Intel powerhouse.

Investigations of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself.

It's cheaper and safer than burning rocket fuel, but satellites have to be built Tonka-tough.

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals.