Dissecting the Grinch: what anatomy reveals about Christmas’s most famous villain

From broad cheekbones and a flexible back to a small prefrontal cortex, here’s everything an anatomist thinks makes the ...
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Scientists build atomic light switches to control single photons on demand

This achievement removes one of the biggest roadblocks in quantum materials science and brings practical quantum devices much ...

Ultrashort laser pulses catch a snapshot of a 'molecular handshake'

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule ...

Scientists Map the Invisible Universe, Revealing New Clues About Dark Matter and Dark Energy

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...