Category: Technology

University of Missouri scientists are battling against an emerging enemy of human health: nanoplastics. Much […]

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a Southwest Research Institute-led team has confirmed […]

Mars has a notoriously inhospitable environment, with temperatures that fluctuate dramatically over the course of […]

Last year marked Earth’s warmest year on record. A new study finds that some of […]

In just a few months, voters across America will head to the polls to decide […]

A new artificial intelligence model developed by USC researchers and published in Nature Methods can […]

Polymers can be thought of like trains: Just as a train is composed of multiple […]

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes […]

Light is an excellent carrier of information used not only for classical communication technologies but […]

Dartmouth and Southern Methodist University researchers invented a technique that uses a specialized light projector […]

Ever since we learned that the surface of planet Mars is cold and dead, people […]

Researchers have developed an inexpensive bandage that uses an electric field to promote healing in […]

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought “holy grail” of organ transplantation […]

The world is going to need a lot of weird metals in the coming years, […]

Everyone gets sleepy at work from time to time, especially after a big lunch. But […]

Mayonnaise continues to help researchers better understand the physics behind nuclear fusion. “We’re still working […]

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow subterranean […]

A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry […]

Eye-tracking allows studying aspects that cannot be seen, for example, the thinking processes of a […]

Cavendish physicists have discovered two new ways to improve organic semiconductors. They found a way […]

In the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists […]

Why does the universe contain matter and (virtually) no antimatter? The BASE international research collaboration […]

A research team led by engineers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and […]

While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the […]

A research team, consisting of Professor Seyoung Kim from the Department of Materials Science and […]

People use large language models for a huge array of tasks, from translating an article […]

Scientists determined the properties of a material in thin-film form that uses a voltage to […]

New research led by scientists at the Smithsonian proposes a plan to safeguard Earth’s imperiled […]

Lung diseases kill millions of people around the world each year. Treatment options are limited, […]

Thanks to an accidental discovery, researchers at the University of British Columbia have created a […]

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have developed a self-powered “bug” that […]

Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, North Carolina State University engineers have discovered a […]

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have created the first-ever […]

Strategically planting perennial grass throughout corn and soybean fields helps address the unintended environmental consequences […]

Organizations are increasingly utilizing machine-learning models to allocate scarce resources or opportunities. For instance, such […]

It is estimated that about 70 percent of the energy generated worldwide ends up as […]

Researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have achieved a significant […]

Why do flies buzz around in circles when the air is still? And why does […]

The key to developing quantum electronics may have a few kinks. According to a team […]

What puts the electronic pep in peptides? A folded structure, according to a new study […]

Using a wearable device, such as a smart watch, to track health data and symptoms, […]

Polypropylene is a common type of plastic found in many essential products used today, such […]

Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology are thinking ahead about […]

Earth’s atmosphere holds an ocean of water, enough liquid to fill Utah’s Great Salt Lake […]

The struggle to cut emissions is real. Last year, the world emitted more than 37 […]

A newly enhanced database is expected to help wildfire managers and scientists better predict where […]

The first rumblings of the Sun’s next 11-year solar cycle have been detected in sound […]

Chemists have been working to synthesize high-value materials from waste molecules for years. Now, an […]

Amyloid-beta (A-beta) aggregates are tangles of proteins most notably associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. […]

University of Delaware and Argonne National Laboratory have come up with a chemical reaction that […]

The world around us is constantly being flash photographed by adaptive radar systems. From salt […]

When deciding what material to use for infrastructure projects, metals are often selected for their […]

Creating fertilizers from organic waste can help reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and promote […]

Oil drops from underwater oil spills can break into tinier droplets at the surface that […]

Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home […]

UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered specific bacterial species that can destroy certain kinds […]

CRISPR-Cas systems, defense systems in bacteria, have become a plentiful source of technologies for molecular […]

A collaborative team of researchers led by Ben Weinstein of the University of Florida, Oregon, […]

Humans make nearly 35,000 decisions every day, from whether it’s safe to cross the road […]

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: […]

Galaxies avoid an early death because they have a “heart and lungs” which effectively regulate […]

While the COVID-19 vaccines introduced many people to RNA-based medicines, RNA oligonucleotides have already been […]

Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed […]

  Because machine-learning models can give false predictions, researchers often equip them with the ability […]

Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA’s […]

A research team at NIMS has successfully developed an environmentally friendly, microspherical fluorescent material primarily […]

The possibility of hydrogen-powered flight means greater opportunities for fossil-free travel, and the technological advances […]

How do people like to interact with robots when navigating a crowded environment? And what […]

Using SLAC’s instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), one of the lab’s world-leading tools for […]

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by […]

A new analysis by University of Wyoming researchers examines the impacts of current federal economic […]

A international team of astronomers led by Université de Montréal has made an exciting discovery […]

An exoplanet infamous for its deadly weather has been hiding another bizarre feature — it […]

A new study presents a significant advancement in fuel cell technology. Researchers from Tokyo Tech […]

Chemists have overcome a major hurdle in synthesizing a more stable form of heterocycle — […]

To perform quantum computations, quantum bits (qubits) must be cooled down to temperatures in the […]

Lithium metal batteries are among the most promising candidates of the next generation of high-energy […]

Microbes that are used for health, agricultural, or other applications need to be able to […]

A mysterious remnant from a rare type of supernova recorded in 1181 has been explained […]

Products with sediment, such as soy milk, typically indicate on their packaging that the mixture […]

UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has […]

Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at […]

A research team has implemented a novel method to achieve epitaxial growth of 1D metallic […]

Lunar swirls are light-colored, sinuous features on the Moon’s surface, bright enough to be visible […]

University of Michigan chemists have discovered a way to use visible light to synthesize a […]

A research effort led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable […]

Two samples from Mars together deliver the “smoking gun” in a new study showing the […]

To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed […]

The growing prevalence of high-speed wireless communication devices, from 5G mobile phones to sensors for […]

The desert moss Syntrichia caninervis is a promising candidate for Mars colonization thanks to its […]

An international team of researchers, co-lead by ETH Zurich and Imperial College London, have derived […]

For years, astronomers have worried about how to explain why the Milky Way has fewer […]

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has developed a […]

A recent discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red […]

The term aromaticity is a basic, long-standing concept in chemistry that is well established for […]

The majority of stars in our galaxy are home to planets. The most abundant are […]

Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes […]

In order to convert sunlight into electricity or other forms of energy as efficiently as […]

An Oregon State University doctoral student and researchers at Adobe have created a new, cost-effective […]

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present […]

X-ray binaries are intriguing systems consisting of two celestial bodies: a normal star and a […]

A study of 17 commonly used synthetic ‘forever chemicals’ has shown that these toxic substances […]

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test […]

Many drug and antibody discovery pathways focus on intricately folded cell membrane proteins: when molecules […]

Behavioral analysis can provide a lot of information about the health status or motivations of […]

Artificial intelligence continues to squirm its way into many aspects of our lives. But what […]

Encapsulating copper nanoparticles within hydrophobic porous silicate crystals has been shown by scientists at Tokyo […]

Green hydrogen often, but certainly not always, leads to CO2 gains. This claim is based […]

A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa’s Nexus for Quantum Technologies Institute (NexQT), […]

The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will […]

The international NOvA collaboration presented new results at the Neutrino 2024 conference in Milan, Italy, […]

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only other planetary body in the solar system that […]

Opera singers have to use the extreme limits of their voice range. Many pedagogical and […]

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), as a source of entangled photons, is of great interest for […]

Magnetic materials have traditionally been classified as either ferromagnetic, like the decorative magnets on iron […]

Someday, you may want your home robot to carry a load of dirty clothes downstairs […]

A team of researchers led by Philip Walther at the University of Vienna carried out […]

Deploying and evaluating a machine learning intervention to improve clinical care and patient outcomes is […]

This year has already seen massive heatwaves around the globe, with cities in Mexico, India, […]

This study discovered mini-Neptunes around four red dwarfs using observations from a global network of […]

Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. […]

AI detects prostate cancer more often than radiologists. Additionally, AI triggers false alarms half as […]

Clouds of gas in a distant galaxy are being pushed faster and faster — at […]

What scientists previously thought about where Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) come from is just the […]

It may seem like the Sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are […]

Astronomers have captured what appears to be a snapshot of a massive collision of giant […]

Thousands of particles of light can merge into a type of “super photon” under suitable […]

A team from the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has […]

The dangers of frozen roads, airplane engines, and runways are well known, but the use […]

A team of Vanderbilt researchers has developed a wirelessly activated device that mimics the wavelike […]

Cornell University researchers have provided a simple and comprehensive — if less dramatic — explanation […]

The United States has enough biomass potential to produce 35 billion gallons per year of […]

Human life begins with a single egg cell that grows into a human being with […]

Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk […]

Diabetes rates continue to rise, with 11.7 million Canadians living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. At […]

Imagine pulling on the long ends of a rectangular piece of rubber. It should become […]

Have you ever wished you could understand what your dog is trying to say to […]

In a new study, a team of researchers led by Dimitra Atri of the NYU […]

Let’s say you want to train a robot so it understands how to use tools […]

Biological processes depend on puzzle pieces coming together and interacting. Under specific conditions, these interactions […]

Researchers in George Mason University’s College of Public Health have leveraged the power of artificial […]

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed the most sensitive method yet for detecting […]

As more and more people drive electric cars, congestion and queues can occur when many […]

New images of Jupiter’s volcano-studded moon Io, taken by the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount […]

Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this […]

A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate […]

Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of the University of Tokyo demonstrated a possible formation […]

Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called […]

Joint research led by Yutaro Shuto, Ryoya Nakagawa, and Osamu Nureki of the University of […]

A new study by Brown University researchers may help redefine how scientists map the surface […]

A study by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that Singaporeans […]

Harnessing energy from plasma requires a precise understanding of its behavior during fusion to keep […]

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a […]

Boilers are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. In a recent study, researchers from […]

Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas, singlehandedly responsible for 78% of the change in energy […]

Undergoing surgery is seldom a pleasant experience, and it can sometimes be highly invasive. Surgical […]

Imagine if your dead laptop or phone could charge in a minute or if an […]

Nuclear physicists have long been working to reveal how the proton gets its spin. Now, […]

Noise-canceling headphones have gotten very good at creating an auditory blank slate. But allowing certain […]

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, University of Copenhagen researchers have become the first to […]

Lighting a gas grill, getting an ultrasound, using an ultrasonic toothbrush — these actions involve […]

While thousands of planets have been discovered around other stars, relatively little is known about […]

Astronomers at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have a new way to measure how fast a […]

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low emission […]

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the […]

Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin […]

Artificial neural networks may soon be able to process time-dependent information, such as audio and […]

A surprisingly low amount of methane and a super-sized core hide within the cotton candy-like […]

The Venus flower basket sponge, with its delicate glass-like lattice outer skeleton, has long intrigued […]

Using DNA origami, LMU researchers have built a diamond lattice with a periodicity of hundreds […]

Two-dimensional materials such as graphene promise to form the basis of incredibly small and fast […]

The chemical industry is a cornerstone of global development, driving innovation, and providing essential products […]

In a May 15 paper released in the journal Physical Review Letters, Virginia Tech physicists […]

Thermoelectric materials could play an important role in the clean energy transition, as they can […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) has numerous applications in healthcare, from analyzing medical imaging to optimizing the […]

After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated […]

A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology has developed a drone that flies […]

The SPECULOOS project, led by the astronomer Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège, has […]

Junsuk Rho from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Chemical Engineering, and the […]

Cinematography techniques can significantly increase user engagement with virtual environments and, in particular, the aesthetic […]

Sometimes it seems like an AI is helping, but the benefit is actually a placebo […]

In a new research commentary, the Artificial Intelligence in Sleep Medicine Committee of the American […]

What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can do already, except better? What […]

Employers are significantly more likely to offer job interviews and higher salaries to graduates with […]