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Credit: Courtesy of Katherine Mackey / UCI Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2017 - China's rapid ascent to global economic superpower...

Credit: UT Arlington Perena Gouma, a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at...

Credit: University of Bath Creating a new generation of advanced pacemakers which adapt to the demands of a patient's body...

Credit: (Photo courtesy of Dr. Kelly Watts) ARLINGTON, Va. -- Noise is an unavoidable fact of life on U.S. Navy...

Credit: Courtesy of IceCube Neutrino Observatory EAST LANSING, Mich. - Trillions of neutrinos, or ghost particles, are passing through us...

Credit: Courtesy Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium Researchers at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station investigated the role of expanded marine protected...

Credit: Wyss Center, www.wysscenter.ch A brain-computer interface that can decipher the thoughts of people who are unable to communicate could...

Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State Data centers are the central point of many, if not most, information systems today, but...

LOS ANGELES - Vast amounts of data transmit across the Internet and telecommunications networks delivering, for example, real-time video calls...

Defects in a key gene - long thought to drive cancer by turning off the protection afforded by the well-known...

New research shows there may have been more nitrogen in the ocean between one and two billion years ago than...

Credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research from Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station has identified a substance in oil that's to blame...

HAMILTON, Feb. 1, 2017 - A consumer device designed to help users focus their thoughts is also generating valuable data...

Credit: Oxford University Not so long ago, observing fundamental particles was reserved for scientists with complex equipment. Now, technological progress...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Compilers are programs that convert computer code written in high-level languages intelligible to humans into low-level instructions...

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 31, 2017 -- A light-sensing protein from a salt-loving, sulfur-forming microbe has proved key to developing methods...

Credit: Susan Webb/Wits University Scientists have confirmed the existence of a "lost continent" under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2017- It's peak cold and flu season, and mucus is making many...

Credit: Hiroshima University/NAOJ Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called "voids")...

Credit: UC3M In recent decades, many scientific discoveries have depended on the analysis of an enormous volume of data, which...