Category: Technology

Alongside carbon dioxide, methane is a key driver of global warming. To detect and monitor […]

A new route to materials with complex ‘disordered’ magnetic properties at the quantum level has […]

Animals and plants also live and thrive on public squares. This creates opportunities for greater […]

It’s a common sight — ants marching in an orderly line over and around obstacles […]

AI-based technologies are rapidly learning to see, converse, calculate and create. One thing they still […]

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in improving the efficiency of an electrochemical reaction that produces […]

Scientists have created a new ‘biocooperative’ material based on blood, which has shown to successfully […]

Researchers have developed a deep learning-based approach that significantly streamlines the accurate identification and classification […]

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers […]

As the world struggles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are seeking practical, economical ways […]

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet […]

Bioluminescence is the natural chemical process of light creation in some living creatures that makes […]

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to […]

Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led […]

A team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers at Mount Sinai trained a deep learning pose-recognition […]

As air temperatures stay elevated through fall months, people may still want clothes that cool […]

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have achieved a new material that will be pivotal […]

Researchers today (Nov. 8, 2024) are releasing the flagship dataset from an ambitious study of […]

LMU researchers have developed a strategy that enables biosensors to be easily adapted for a […]

Hydrogen-powered planes are set to take wing around the world in the future. To make […]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists are developing a formula for success — by studying how […]

Chemists synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a revolutionary strategy of functionalizing normally inert […]

Robots are supposed to do boring or unpleasant jobs for us. However, tedious tasks such […]

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a new way to detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl […]

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated […]

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which […]

Large language models can do impressive things, like write poetry or generate viable computer programs, […]

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but still…they both have a lot of […]

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are warning that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity in the fields […]

Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What […]

Biomedical engineers from the University of Melbourne have invented a 3D printing system, or bioprinter, […]

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the […]

Cause and effect. We understand this concept from an early age. Tug on a pull […]

People with stronger autistic trails showed distinct exploration patterns and higher levels of persistence in […]

In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist […]

Macrophage cells are the immune system’s frontline soldiers, early on the scene to protect the […]

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims to collect millions to billions of high-quality, highly contextualized […]

In a recent study, an international research team with significant involvement from MedUni Vienna has […]

A monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would […]

By applying an electric field, the movement of microswimmers can be manipulated. Scientists from the […]

Rice University researchers have developed an electrochemical reactor that has the potential to drastically reduce […]

The transition to renewable energy requires efficient methods for storing large amounts of electricity. Researchers […]

Published in JAMA Network Open, a collaborative team of researchers from the University of Minnesota […]

Based on joint research with Professor Jaehyuk Lim at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jeonbuk […]

Professor Chiyoung Park of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo […]

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only place other than Earth known to have an […]

The idea of turning the air around us into drinking water is a marvel on […]

The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of […]

Researchers from the University of Virginia have made significant strides in the rapidly advancing field […]

As renewable energy sources such as wind and solar become more widespread, managing the power […]

A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains […]

Published today in Nature Human Behaviour, the paper outlined essential factors for researchers, policymakers and […]

The opioid epidemic claims more 70,000 lives each year in the U.S., and lifesaving interventions […]

Dangling from a weather balloon 80,000 feet above New Mexico, a pair of antennas sticks […]

Caltech scientists have developed a method driven by machine learning that allows them to accurately […]

Some computing challenges are so big that it’s necessary to go all in. That’s the […]

A team of researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in […]

Chemicals are omnipresent today: they enter our bodies through food, air or the skin. But […]

Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key […]

The world is rapidly transitioning to renewable power, but there are shortcomings. Solar power falls […]

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that […]

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a […]

Trees are the most abundant natural resource living on Earth’s land masses, and North Carolina […]

In the high-stakes world of aviation, a pilot’s ability to perform under stress can mean […]

A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive […]

Teleoperated robots for gathering moon dust are a step closer, according to new research by […]

With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather […]

Autonomous systems like drones, self-driving cars, and robots are becoming more common in our daily […]

Researchers from Japan explore how the domesticated flightless silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), a prominent insect […]

From brighter TV screens to better medical diagnostics and more efficient solar panels, new Curtin-led […]

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate […]

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth […]

In pioneering drug development, the new technology that enables the easy and rapid editing of […]

When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a closer look. When magnets […]

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin […]

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, […]

Multimaterial 3D printing enables makers to fabricate customized devices with multiple colors and varied textures. […]

Hydrogen-burning internal combustion engines offer great promise in the fight against climate change because they […]

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, known commonly as PFAS, could take over 40 years to flush […]

Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow […]

A Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of […]

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other international institutions have for the first […]

As tools powered by artificial intelligence increasingly make their way into health care, the latest […]

Drug discovery is much like working a jigsaw puzzle. The chemical compounds behind drug molecules […]

Environmental phenols are found in a wide range of common consumer products. They include preservatives […]

Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, […]

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to […]

University of Copenhagen mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex […]

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found […]

Researchers have developed a way to make one type of plastic material more durable and […]

Particles larger than ordinary molecules or atoms yet still small enough to be invisible to […]

Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when […]

For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun’s global coronal magnetic […]

deepSPACE isn’t a futuristic film, a new videogame or the next season of a classic […]

Remember that old high school chemistry experiment where salt crystals precipitate out of a saltwater […]

The genome inside each of our cells is modelled by tension and torsion — due […]

Researchers have successfully integrated a megahertz-speed optical coherence tomography (MHz-OCT) system into a commercially available […]

As competition between gas and electric utilities heats up due to clean energy-promoting policies that […]

For the first time ever, researchers have witnessed — in real time and at the […]

Squinting into the treetops won’t reveal the tiny organisms up there. But these creatures leave […]

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 […]

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes […]

Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care […]

Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) uses hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, of data points to train […]

By 2100, hospitalizations from diarrheal diseases are predicted to increase in the city of Dhaka […]

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy […]

The theory of indirect reciprocity holds that people who earn a good reputation by helping […]

A research team led by Rice University’s James Tour has developed a method to recycle […]

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists […]

The large language models that have increasingly taken over the tech world are not “cheap” […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase of 2024. Though far from that cultural spotlight, […]

A multi-institutional research team led by Georgia Tech’s Hailong Chen has developed a new, low-cost […]

Researchers have created a computer program that can unravel the mysteries of how proteins work […]

In a study published July 29 in Advanced Materials, University of Texas at Dallas researchers […]

Within the cycling realm, “to Everest” involves riding up and down the same mountain until […]

Using state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies to renovate existing properties and construct new ones could enable […]

Spintronic devices work with spin textures caused by quantum-physical interactions. A Spanish-German collaboration has now […]

A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a […]

Lasso peptides are natural products made by bacteria. Their unusual lasso shape endows them with […]

For more than 100 years, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to determine the structure […]

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io — the most volcanically active […]

After thousands of years as a highly valuable commodity, silk continues to surprise. Now it […]

Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed hexagon-shaped robotic components, called modules, […]

A new type of OLED (organic light emitting diode) could replace bulky night vision goggles […]

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The […]

Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are critical to sustaining our planet, but they […]

Inspired by the architecture of human bone’s tough outer layer, engineers at Princeton have developed […]

Researchers at University of California San Diego have published new guidelines that could help scientists […]

Now, a team of UBC Okanagan researchers believe they have found a way to harness […]

Most rechargeable batteries that power portable devices, such as toys, handheld vacuums and e-bikes, use […]

A groundbreaking study has made it possible to extract much more information from fingerprints as […]

Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the […]

An international team of researchers has found a surprisingly simple relationship between the rates of […]

Kumamoto University’s research team, led by Assistant Professor Kazuto Hatakeyama and Professor Shintaro Ida of […]

Batteries lose capacity over time, which is why older cellphones run out of power more […]

One of the drawbacks of fitness trackers and other wearable devices is that their batteries […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful […]

Phase separation, when molecules part like oil and water, works alongside oxygen diffusion to help […]

As Rohit Velankar, now a senior at Fox Chapel Area High School, poured juice into […]

The MXene class of materials has many talents. An international team led by HZB chemist […]

Maryam Shanechi, the Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the […]

As a rule, GPS indicates our location with an accuracy of just a few meters. […]

Typically, electrons are free agents that can move through most metals in any direction. When […]

A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory identified […]

Researchers from LMU, the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), […]

Water contamination by the chemicals used in today’s technology is a rapidly growing problem globally. […]

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that […]

A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater […]

Building a robot takes time, technical skill, the right materials — and sometimes, a little […]

Some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are poorly degradable and are also known as “forever […]

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe […]

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a world leader in molten salt […]

Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years […]

Understanding how cells process nutrients and produce energy — collectively known as metabolism — is […]

Wearable, long-term continuous heart monitors helped identify 52% more cases of atrial fibrillation compared to […]

While some microbes can make people sick or spoil food, others are critical for survival. […]

The invention of a tool capable of unlocking previously impossible organic chemical reactions has opened […]

In order to train more powerful large language models, researchers use vast dataset collections that […]

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have found […]

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully simulated higher-order topological (HOT) lattices […]

Chemists at the University of Amsterdam have developed a method to furnish a range of […]

When it comes to purchasing and using electric vehicles (EVs), housing- and income-related factors significantly […]

Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space […]

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for researchers, but with a significant limitation: The inability […]

Rare-earth elements are everywhere in modern life, found in everything from the smart device you’re […]

Published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, a research team led by the University of […]

Nothing in science can be achieved or understood without measurement. Today, thanks to advances in […]

The SETI Institute, the Berkeley SETI Research Center and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy […]

For about fifteen years, Kagome materials with their star-shaped structure reminiscent of a Japanese basketry […]

Scientists for several years have studied the theoretical effectiveness of injecting sulfur dioxide into the […]

A multi-institutional team of scientists in the United States, led by physicist Peng Wei at […]

A team of researchers at Michigan State University has discovered a set of methods that […]

When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos […]

A 3D quantum spin liquid has been discovered in the vicinity of a member of […]

As climate change creates hotter, drier conditions, we are seeing longer fire seasons with larger, […]

An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets […]

Who are we? Why are we here? As the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song […]

In the scorching heat of summer, anyone who spends time outside — athletes, landscapers, kids […]

Researchers using Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have identified […]

Nylon, Teflon, Kevlar. These are just a few familiar polymers — large-molecule chemical compounds — […]

NIMS and SoftBank Corp. have jointly developed a model capable of predicting the cycle lives […]

UCSF studies show personalized, self-adjusting, neuromodulation has the potential to enhance movement and sleep. Two […]

The dramatic dimming of a light source ~ 860 million light-years away from Earth confirms […]

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel reagent that enhances the precision of drug […]

Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have discovered a new type of “whistler,” an electromagnetic […]

James Tour’s lab at Rice University has developed a new method known as flash-within-flash Joule […]

Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international study to determine the origin […]

Microscope images could be obtained much more quickly — rather than one pixel at a […]

For the past century since their discovery, superconductors and their mysterious atomic properties have left […]

Researchers have developed a new two-photon fluorescence microscope that captures high-speed images of neural activity […]

The remarkable affinity of the microbial enzyme iron nitrogenase for the greenhouse gas CO2 makes […]