West Virginia University engineers have secured $3 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding to research a new chemical reactor system that uses microwaves to...
Self-monitoring of physical activity with an accelerometer and feedback is an effective tool to improve physical activity in elderly people requiring long-term support. The Kobe...
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Utrecht University have reported on a previously elusive way...
Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip...
A dipole magnetic field, created by a ring current, is the most fundamental type of magnetic field that is found both in laboratories and in...
LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- What's black and white and red all over? It might be a velvet ant. But discerning which one could be head-scratching...
You may not realise it, but “nudge” has been used by businesses, policy-makers and governments for years to prod the public into making different choices....
Future alternatives to fossil fuel-based plastics could be hiding in kitchen cabinets and waste bins. Researchers are looking to foodstuffs as starting ingredients for polymer-based...
Scientists have observed so-called 'roaming' chemical reactions, those that at certain points move away from the lowest minimum energy 'path of least resistance', in highly excited...
RICHLAND, Wash.—In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an electron while “freezing” the motion of the much larger...
Researchers can accurately track where typhoid fever cases are highest by monitoring environmental samples for viruses called bacteriophages that specifically infect the bacterium that causes...
A new antibiotic created by Harvard researchers overcomes antimicrobial resistance mechanisms that have rendered many modern drugs ineffective and are driving a global public health...
One of the grand challenges for materials science is the design and discovery of new materials that address global priorities such as Net Zero.Credit: University...
New research led by the University of Liverpool reveals the scale of inappropriate reforestation projects across Africa.Credit: Kate Parr, University of Liverpool New research led by...
Researchers at Michigan State University and the Carnegie Institution for Science have developed a model that connects microscopic biology to macroscopic ecology, which could deepen...
