After these researchers unexpectedly found carbon-based drawings in the Font-de-Gaume cave, they returned to pinpoint when the figures were drawn ...

Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and ...

Scientists have discovered that applying an electric field to certain ceramics can dramatically redirect how heat moves through them.

Stories of brainwashing in the Korean War made American intelligence agencies anxious. They wanted to know if they could protect themselves or even use similar techniques. A recently republished CIA ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...

Chickpea plants growing in a variety of the investigated lunar soil simulant mixtures. Some of the plants are exhibiting signs of stress, including yellowing to the leaves. Credit: Jessica Atkin. As ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

The search for materials that can conduct electricity at room temperature without losing energy is one of the greatest and most consequential challenges of modern physics: loss-free power transmission ...

Engineers at UNSW Sydney and Monash have developed an innovative way of sending hidden information that's hard to intercept.

, March 9 -- 21 crew members aboard China's Tiangong space station have made significant strides in terms of space medical experiments and physical science research over the past week, while also ...

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