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OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 14, 2017 -- Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sergei Kalinin and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, have...

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 -- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are small, semiconductor-based lasers that emit optical beams from their top surface, and one of...

Credit: © J. Lefcheck/VIMS. A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science links a long-term decline in Chesapeake Bay's eelgrass...

The Phoenix cluster is an enormous accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies, located 5.7 billion light years from Earth. At its center lies a massive galaxy,...

Albert Einstein considered the origin of the Earth's magnetic field one of the five most important unsolved problems in physics. The weakening of the geomagnetic...

Credit: Mary-Ann Muffoletto, Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA - The world's current reliance on fossil fuel energy, which is finite and a major source...

Loading video... Credit: SFU A study led by SFU biology researcher Gerhard Gries found that the photoreceptors in the eyes of blow flies do more...

Credit: Stephan Hruszkewycz WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 -- Quantum mechanics, the physics that governs nature at the atomic and subatomic scale, contains a host...

Credit: Scholars & Gentlemen /DNDi The non-profit research and development organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has released results of a st..

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief spurts of radio emission, lasting just one-thousandth of a second, whose origins are mysterious. Fewer than two dozen have...

(Salk Institute) Salk Professor Tony Hunter, who holds an American Cancer Society Professorship, has been awarded $500,000 as part of the $1 million Royal Swedish...

Leesburg, VA, Feb. 14, 2017--With educational activities representing the entire spectrum of radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) will host leading radiologists from around...

For the first time, astronomers from MIT and elsewhere have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet. The star, which goes by...

Credit: Palomar Observatory Sky Survey Astronomers are reporting a rare star as big -- or bigger -- than the Earth's sun and that is expanding...

Scientists at VIB-KU Leuven have identified a new mechanism that impacts tumor growth. The typical lack of oxygen in tumors doesn't only stimulate proliferation, but...