Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.

Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.

A river that slices through a 13,000-foot mountain range shouldn’t exist like this. Now scientists say a hidden process 200 km underground may finally explain why.

Real-world optimization problems often require an external “modeling engine” that computes fitnesses or data that are then input to an objective function. These programs often have much longer ...

Infleqtion just landed a contract that could put the company on the map as a serious quantum player. The quantum computing firm secured a role in NASA's Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder mission.

A team of astronomers has identified a four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 1903 that defies conventional ...

A nuclear transition such as that in thorium-229 will be much less disturbed in the solid state, and its clock transition will be mostly preserved even in a crystal environment. The solid-state ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

Learn more about the unique structure of elephant whiskers that allows them to pick up something as fragile as a tortilla chip and not break it. These delicate whiskers could soon inspire advanced ...

This winter, makeup artists are seeing warm nudes, cool browns, and muted pinks trend, especially layered together for a soft, blurred, contoured look.

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