The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly ...

National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed an electron transfer mechanism that involves a switchable metal and oxygen redox chemistry in nickel-oxyhydroxide-based materials, ...

TALIF works by using a precisely tuned laser to excite the atoms being measured. Instead of absorbing a single photon, each atom absorbs two photons at the same time, and the combined energy of these ...