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Inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not with the sound of gears or bells, but with the quantum pulse of cesium ...

A meteorite impact site dating back 1.2 billion years has been identified in Scotland, rewriting what scientists know about ...

In a recent groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified evidence of a meteorite impact in north-west Scotland that ...

Bilateral relations are now 'arguably at their lowest point in decades, just short of war', according to Dr Manali Kumar, ...

A team of scientists from MIT introduced a novel strategy and manufacturing process called atomic lift-off that enables the ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

The clock is ticking on President Trump’s two-month timeline to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, with the ...

While elevating Tamiami Trail already has created significant benefit for the Everglades and Florida Bay, scientists are counting on a massive restoration project, the Everglades Agricultural Area ...

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed ...

A lot of hopes are being pinned on the U.K.’s so-called Golden Triangle, an expanded technology cluster encompassing London and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. If all goes according to ...

A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself and their thoughts. This enigmatic process appears to be controlled by the ...