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Credit: University of Illinois A new plasmonic sensor developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will serve...

An international team led by a researcher at Cardiff University believe that the movement of our ancestors across East Africa...

Inspired by a natural process found in certain bacteria, a team of Caltech researchers is inching closer to a new...

Credit: University of Central Florida University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new and better way of detecting interactions...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Mid-infrared wavelengths of light are invisible to the eye but can be useful for a number of...

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM satellite constellation provided rainfall data after...

Credit: Sasha Taylor, CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. DURHAM, N.C. -- Zoom in on a crystal and you will find an ordered array...

When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized jets but on...

Credit: University of Liverpool Physicists from the University of Liverpool have made a huge step forwards towards building a novel...

Credit: Mark A. Garlick/CfA AUSTIN, Texas -- Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have put...

Many modern technological advances and devices are based on understanding quantum mechanics. Compared to semiconductors, hard disk drives or lasers,...

Credit: Chen-Yu Liu, Physics Department, Indiana University WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2017 -- All matter making up the stars, our...

Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University Engineers working to add "muscle sense" to prosthetic limbs found that tactile feedback on the skin...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada The unique optical system of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope consists of five mirrors, each of which represents...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2017 -- Today's computers provide storage of tremendous quantities of information with extremely large data densities,...

Credit: Credits: NASA/Desiree Stover NASA's special "Webb-cam" kept an eye on the development of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH - A new interactive design tool developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute enables both...

Columbus, Ohio (May 30, 2017) - Twenty Ohio high school students were selected to attend the Ohio Supercomputer Center's 28th...

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Mora formed in the Bay of Bengal and in just...

Credit: Credits: NASA/W.Hrybyk NASA technologists produced telescope mirrors with the highest reflectance ever reported in the far-ultraviolet spectral range. Now,...