Category: Technology

A new approach to transport ticketing offers a step towards an integrated, transparent system that […]

Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the […]

Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that […]

Bob Wilbur thought he’d found a retirement home that would be a place of peace. […]

A research team from NIMS and Nagoya University has demonstrated that an iron-based amorphous alloy, […]

Perovskites are among the most researched topics in materials science. Recently, a research team led […]

Boronic acid has been used in organic chemistry for decades, even though it is not […]

Conversational agents (CAs) such as Alexa and Siri are designed to answer questions, offer suggestions […]

We are living in a very noisy world. From the hum of traffic outside your […]

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Drexel University in Philadelphia, along with Brookhaven National […]

Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth’s scalding and […]

New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth’s own space environment […]

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed lubricant additives that […]

The interest in antimicrobial solutions for personal and multi-user touch screens, such as tablets and […]

A new study co-authored by Sophie Janicke-Bowles, associate professor in Chapman University’s School of Communication, […]

Research led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated […]

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pittsburgh studied how the spin […]

A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness […]

On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the […]

Recent reports of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope finding signs of life on a distant […]

By modifying a refrigerator commonly used in both research and industry, researchers at the National […]

A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia […]

Researchers who want to bridge the divide between biology and technology spend a lot of […]

Researchers in Purdue University’s College of Engineering are developing patented and patent-pending innovations that make […]

Using the Gemini South telescope a team of astronomers have confirmed for the first time […]

Scientists have shed light on a new, transformative approach that could help resolve a dispute […]

A recent United Nations report found that the world generated 137 billion pounds of electronic […]

Researchers Kazuaki Takasan and Kyogo Kawaguchi of the University of Tokyo with Kyosuke Adachi of […]

Whether you’re trying to predict a climate catastrophe or mental health crisis, mathematics tells us […]

Researchers have developed a compact and lightweight single-photon airborne lidar system that can acquire high-resolution […]

Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found […]

Freeze casting is an elegant, cost-effective manufacturing technique to produce highly porous materials with custom-designed […]

A team of researchers led by Professor Philip C.Y. Chow from the Department of Mechanical […]

It’s the most fundamental of processes — the evaporation of water from the surfaces of […]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared that removing carbon from the atmosphere is […]

Did you know that 99% of synthetic diamonds are currently produced using high-pressure and high-temperature […]

Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, […]

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable metal alloy that won’t crack at extreme temperatures due to […]

Observing individual cells through microscopes can reveal a range of important cell biological phenomena that […]

An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved […]

Researchers have developed a new shoe insole technology that helps reduce the risk of diabetic […]

The Standard Model of Particle Physics is scientists’ best understanding of the forces that describe […]

Inspired by what human liver enzymes can do, Scripps Research chemists have developed a new […]

Contrary to previous assumptions, nerve cells in the human neocortex are wired differently than in […]

A new robotic suction cup which can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been […]

Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable. However, decision-makers […]

Understanding how proteins interact with each other is crucial for developing new treatments and understanding […]

In some materials, spins form complex magnetic structures within the nanometre and micrometre scale in […]

Just as sat-nav did away with the need to argue over the best route home, […]

To save on fuel and reduce aircraft emissions, engineers are looking to build lighter, stronger […]

Tagging marine animals with sensors to track and study their movements can provide researchers with […]

As one of the first health systems in the country to pilot the use of […]

Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy […]

What if changes in a person’s stress levels could be detected while they sleep using […]

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) found […]

A star’s magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of […]

The rise of RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for new ways to fight […]

An international research team led by a researcher from the University of Vienna has for […]

In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest […]

Using machine learning, researchers at Penn State have tied low-magnitude microearthquakes to the permeability of […]

When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of […]

Ancient Egyptians were known for their religious beliefs and astronomical knowledge of the Sun, Moon, […]

A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and […]

UC Davis Health cardiology team members are among the first in the country to treat […]

Today wirelessly connected devices are performing an expanding array of applications, such as monitoring the […]

Understanding heart function and disease, as well as testing new drugs for heart conditions, has […]

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy have […]

New observations provide insights into whether the birth of the giant planets takes a similar […]

Hear the words E. coli or salmonella and food poisoning comes to mind. Rapid detection […]

Optical sensors serve as the backbone of numerous scientific and technological endeavors, from detecting gravitational […]

The active ingredient in many drugs is what’s known as a small molecule: bigger than […]

If you were to throw a message in a bottle into a black hole, all […]

The CHEOPS space telescope, whose scientific operations centre is based at the University of Geneva […]

Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must […]

Despite their ancient ages, some stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole appear […]

If you imagine an industrial wind turbine, you likely picture the windmill design, technically known […]

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have […]

With the evolution of artificial intelligence comes discussion of the technology’s environmental impact. A new […]

Energy harvesting, an eco-friendly technology, extends beyond solar and wind power in generating electricity from […]

Manufacturers of secondary battery cells (LG Energy Solution, Samsung SDI, and SK on) have been […]

Among the many chemicals we use every day, ammonia is one of the worst for […]

The source of pollutants in rivers and freshwater lakes can now be identified using a […]

Metaphorically speaking, that’s the question one team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma […]

Researchers developed materials and processes that can improve the efficiencies of molecular transformations driven by […]

The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of […]

Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite […]

Metalenses, nano-artificial structures capable of manipulating light, offer a technology that can significantly reduce the […]

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT […]

Iron screws and other so-called ferromagnetic materials are made up of atoms with electrons that […]

The Sun’s differential rotation pattern has puzzled scientists for decades: while the poles rotate with […]

The beautiful, gnarled, nooked-and-crannied reefs that surround tropical islands serve as a marine refuge and […]

In a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers at the Marshall University […]

A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or […]

Pairing cryptocurrency mining — notable for its outsize consumption of carbon-based fuel — with green […]

From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out […]

A challenge to space scientists to better understand our hazardous near-Earth space environment has been […]

The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates […]

Researchers at McMaster University and Stanford University have invented a new generative artificial intelligence model […]

Water eletrolysis process is a system that produces hydrogen by electrolyzing water. It is an […]

Scientists believe that planetary systems like our solar system contain more rocky objects than gas-rich […]

The solar energy world is ready for a revolution. Scientists are racing to develop a […]

Microplastics are tiny, nearly indestructible fragments shed from everyday plastic products. As we learn more […]

Astronomers have identified what could be two of the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks: Named […]

In a project aimed at democratizing science and fostering educational enrichment, a group of high […]

Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can […]

There’s a patch of concrete on Drexel University’s campus that could portend a frost-free future […]

There are many ways to store data — digitally, on a hard disk, or using […]

Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it […]

Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could […]

The current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it’s made of […]

A research team, led by Professor Seok Ju Kang in the School of Energy and […]

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have successfully developed a new […]

People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who are recovering […]

In a study published on January 18, 2024 in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers […]

Rice University synthetic biologists have found a way to piggyback on the glucose monitoring technology […]

Scientists recently published the results of a competition that put researchers to the test. For […]

Electrical engineers at Duke University have determined the theoretical fundamental limit for how much electromagnetic […]

To combine two low-energy photons into one high-energy photon efficiently, the energy must be able […]

Global GDP loss from climate change will increase exponentially the warmer the planet gets when […]

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill […]

Sand ripples are fascinating. They are symmetrical, yet wind — which causes them — is […]

Cicadas are the soundtrack of summer, but their pee is more special than their music. […]

With the help of 16 grants from the National Science Foundation, researchers have painstakingly taken […]

Adhesive tape or sticky notes are easy to attach to a surface, but can be […]

When you teach a child how to solve puzzles, you can either let them figure […]

The DNA carries the genetic information of all living organisms and consists of only four […]

Researchers have moved one step closer to making solid-state batteries from lithium and sulfur a […]

Evaporation is a natural process so ubiquitous that most of us take it for granted. […]

A team of physicists has developed a method to detect gravity waves with such low […]

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea […]

The James Webb Space Telescope makes one of the most unexpected findings within its first […]

Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining […]

A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has […]

Scientists led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher are closing in on a new […]

Since more than a decade it has been possible for physicists to accurately measure the […]

Scientists have developed a new robot that can ‘mimic’ the two-handed movements of care-workers as […]

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have […]

Nearly every massive galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. When two galaxies […]

The question of where the boundary between classical and quantum physics lies is one of […]

To find out how planetary systems such as our Solar System form, an international research […]

Score another one for artificial intelligence. In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted […]

In a collaborative effort to improve the food industry, Dr. Mustafa Akbulut, professor of chemical […]

Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 […]

Cornell University astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds […]

An international team of astronomers — including Clemson University astrophysicist Dieter Hartmann — obtained observational […]

Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, […]

Organic materials discovered on Mars may have originated from atmospheric formaldehyde, according to new research, […]

The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of […]

Cooking on your gas stove can emit more nano-sized particles into the air than vehicles […]

When a star like our Sun reaches the end of its life, it can ingest […]

Uppsala University is the new world record holder for electrical energy generation from CIGS solar […]

In the three years since NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars, the NASA science […]

Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright […]

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have unveiled a novel concept termed “supercritical […]

Luke Skywalker’s childhood might have been slightly less harsh if he’d grown up on a […]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a […]

Nearly 30 years ago, scientists discovered a unique class of anticancer molecules in a family […]

If the fractional quantum Hall regime were a series of highways, these highways would have […]

Imagine doubling the processing power of your smartphone, tablet, personal computer, or server using the […]

The expression “flawless from every angle” is commonly used to characterize a celebrity’s appearance. This […]

The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly […]

A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way’s greatest secrets:  an enormous, […]

Throughout human history, technologies have been used to make peoples’ lives richer and more comfortable, […]

Making quantum systems more scalable is one of the key requirements for the further development […]

A research team from Osaka Metropolitan University that had previously succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid […]

In the past decade, humanity has seen the birth and expansion of a commercial space […]

Creating a quantum computer powerful enough to tackle problems we cannot solve with current computers […]

Ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism have long been known to scientists as two classes of magnetic order […]

Volcanoes are a common feature on the surfaces of solid planets within the solar system, […]

One of the grand challenges for materials science is the design and discovery of new […]

A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within […]

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), scientists at the Marine Genomics Unit, […]

In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an […]

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has created 20 new recombinant […]

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, surfaces in public spaces are cleaned more often. While disinfectant […]

A group of researchers have used equipment originally intended for astronomy observation to capture transformations […]

Over 100,000 individuals in the United States are currently in need of organ transplants. The […]

You can mend a broken heart this valentine’s day now that researchers invented a new […]

Materials just atoms in thickness, known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, are set to revolutionize future […]

The properties of normal materials, such as stiffness and flexibility, are determined by the molecular […]

The looming threat of climate change has motivated scientists worldwide to look for cleaner alternatives […]

Engineers at the University of Cincinnati created a more efficient way of converting carbon dioxide […]

Semiconductors are ubiquitous in modern technology, working to either enable or prevent the flow of […]

Researchers have developed a sensor made from ‘frozen smoke’ that uses artificial intelligence techniques to […]

In quantum sensing, atomic-scale quantum systems are used to measure electromagnetic fields, as well as […]

In most materials, heat prefers to scatter. If left alone, a hotspot will gradually fade […]

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an artificial […]

A teacher’s gender and comfort with technology factor into whether artificial intelligence is adopted in […]

Futuristic advancements in AI and healthcare stole the limelight at the tech extravaganza Consumer Electronics […]