China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

The Leinweber Foundation has awarded five US institutions $90m to create their own theoretical research institutes. The investment, which the foundation says is the largest ever for theoretical ...

Researchers in China have adapted the interlocking structure of mortise-and-tenon joints – as used by woodworkers around the world since ancient times – to the design of nanoscale devices known as ...