By Jane Qiu On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl. Along the northern side, a…
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For healthy adults who want strong bones, a commonly recommended vitamin doesnât seem to help, but other things really do By Claudia Wallis Among my…
By Anil Ananthaswamy Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantum physics Quantum physicist…
By Karen Weintraub on December 18, 2019 The technology embeds immunization records into a childâs skin Keeping track of vaccinations remains a major challenge in the developing world,…
Spyridon Michalakis The quantum Hall effect is a macroscopic phenomenon involving electric current across a conducting surface that exhibits quantizationâtraditionally reserved for the microscopic quantum realm.…
Florida will soon reopen to launches for pole-orbiting spacecraft By Irene Klotz Sixty years ago the U.S. Air Force repurposed its Thor missile as a launch…
By Adam Mann The smallest conceivable length of time might be no larger than a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth…