The photoelectric effect, first explained by Albert Einstein in 1905, laid the foundation for quantum mechanics. It occurs when high-energy light strikes atoms, releasing electrons. This phenomenon is ...

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies ...

This February marks the second year of the MIT class “Coffee Matters: Using the Breakerspace to Make the Perfect Cup.” ...

Brandeis University professor Robert Kuttner contrasted President Donald Trump cutting funding for the National Institutes of ...

Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the ...

To create the new batteries needed for electric vehicles, mobile devices and renewable energy storage, researchers have ...

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Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.