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A pair of photons enters an optical maze, and sometimes they leave as something new. Not new in the everyday sense, since both were still photons when they came out.

The Milky Way’s centre looks nothing like the calm band of starlight you see from a dark hillside. In a new, ultra-wide radio mosaic, the region turns into a tangle of cold, threadlike gas structures.

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Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

China’s domination of the rare earths industry is a major vulnerability for Western governments, but North America is finally ...

THERE have been a couple of interesting developments from the Department of Energy (DOE) this week that certainly warrant ...

On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, pressed together with a narrow “neck,” like a snowman that never melted.

How equipment R&D drives OLED and semiconductor innovation behind modern electronics.