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- Tsinghua University team developed an “energy conversion coat” that enables rare-earth nanocrystals to overcome their insulating properties and achieve tunable electroluminescence, publishing results in Nature.
- The…
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Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), working together with the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL), have found significant amounts of hazardous chemicals in plastic toys sold throughout Brazil. The team examined 70 products,…

My fencing coach Derek Evered, who has died aged 100, began his working life as a lab assistant at 14 and rose to become reader in biochemistry, and deputy to the professor, at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, now part of King’s…

A Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, as well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, for an eight-month mission to the…

A statue more than 3,000 years old has been found at the bottom of Lake Bolsena in central Italy, surprising researchers with human fingerprints still visible on its surface. The artifact, recovered by a team of underwater archaeologists, is…

A Martian mystery that sparked years of debate — an alleged lake buried beneath miles of ice — now looks far less watery than scientists hoped.
A new radar study from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) revisits the strange signal…


The Vaonis Vespera Pro has been brought to its second-cheapest price by the Black Friday sales. It is a stunning smart telescope that represents the pinnacle of Vaonis’ engineering with a huge 12.5MP sensor and CovalENS technology, allowing…

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe flares from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, in a new light. The new modelling of these observations could help scientists get to…