Fentanyl overdoses can happen in minutes, and the usual tools respond after the damage is already underway. A proposed vaccine tries a different approach: keep fentanyl tied up in the bloodstream so ...

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In a quiet corner of a European museum, a set of stained crucibles and dusty glassware has forced historians to redraw the timeline of chemistry. When scientists analyzed this medieval alchemist’s kit ...

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A never-before-seen image of individual oxygen atoms dissolved in water has been captured.

Researchers have discovered how to design and place single-photon sources at the atomic scale inside ultrathin 2D materials, ...

Scientists have uncovered that some atoms in liquids don't move at all—even at extreme temperatures—and these anchored atoms dramatically alter the way materials freeze. Using advanced electron ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

The Atom and the Algorithm: Nuclear Energy and AI are Converging to Shape the Future Writers and futurists have long echoed Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s idea that “the future arrives too fast…and in the ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...