The human eye is incredibly complex. It functions as a lens, a really sensitive light detector, and a transmitter which sends the information it gathers to...
A team of Stanford engineers led by assistant professor of bioengineering Manu Prakesh have created a miniature computer which operates using the physics of water droplets...
For thousands of years, the nature of light has remained a mystery for philosophers and scientists. Sure, you can tell that there’s something there, because when...
Nowadays it’s quite rare to make real groundbreaking discoveries in the areas of anatomy and physiology. Starting with the dissections done a few hundred years ago,...
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have conducted an updated version of John Wheeler’s famous 1978 delayed-choice thought experiment, involving a particle which has the...
When trying to figure out new designs for their machines, engineers often look to nature for inspiration. A team at UC Berkeley has not only created...
Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so powerful that not even light can escape its pull. In a way, they are the darkest...
After discovering the elusive Higgs boson back in 2012 (and generally doing some pretty amazing, albeit less publicized science), the Large Hadron Collider took an extended...
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed an incredibly tiny beamsplitter which divides light into two separate channels of information, an accomplishment which could be...
Methanogens are some of the most remarkable creatures on the planet, part of the domain Archaea, which comprises some of the oldest living things on our...