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An international research team involving Paderborn University has achieved a crucial breakthrough on the road to a quantum internet: for the first time ever, the polarisation state of a single photon ...

Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints. In a 2016 survey of 270 scientists, researchers identified concrete ...

In a quiet lab at Utrecht University, researchers have built a tool that lets you watch one of life’s most serious crises ...

This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

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Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

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Having grown up in a house of science and done research in labs more focused on basic research than cash cow drug discovery, I had a very noble view of science as a way to better understand our world.

From technologies for scientists at the lab bench to those in the clinic, this year’s Top Innovations have a lot to offer.

Kids won’t need beakers and microscopes for these biology experiments—they just need themselves! Each of these five experiments lets children discover how a human body system works. And by doing these ...