We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
A sudden release of pressure allowed a copper-based compound to superconduct at the highest temperature yet for atmospheric pressure, a study claims.
A molecule made of carbon and chlorine is half as twisty as the paper loops common in math classes.
Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the court, data show.
Rufous net-casting spiders can tune the stiffness and elasticity of their webs thanks to loops of silk, scanning electron microscope images reveal.
Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.
After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.
The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise from its ashes.
Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek astronomer Hipparchus.
Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.
