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EPFL researchers have developed a light-based method that can produce proteins that switch states, respond to signals, and even compute, using light and the cell cycle.

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An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any ...

Everything depends on what people and their government do,” Somerville writes, not once, not twice, but (if I count correctly) seven times.

The molecule, with the formula C13Cl2, was assembled atom-by-atom at IBM from a custom precursor synthesized at Oxford University, with individual atoms removed one at a time using precisely ...

Taking inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of friction, the ‘sneaker squeak’ question cuts to a deep problem in physics.

To highlight how women are pushed aside, I’ve compiled a list of 17 awesome women whose accomplishments were stolen by men. These pioneering women serve as ...

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...

Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.

What if staying alive depends on minimizing surprise? The Free Energy Principle suggests that feeling itself may be what that ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...