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(Chalmers University of Technology) More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have proposed a...

An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate of nearly twice an hour....

Credit: Erika Nesvold Washington, DC -- When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Tom Bridgman Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years..

Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently houses NASA's James Webb Space...

Credit: University of Stirling The operation of surveillance cameras is the subject of a new UK strategy, shaped by a University of Stirling privacy expert....

Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from one point to another, it...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations -- a common type of defect in materials -- can affect electrical and heat...

Credit: Robert Campbell Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a new method of controlling biology at the cellular level using light. The tool--called...

Credit: Iris Choi, Oxford University WASHINGTON -- With the growing popularity of mobile phone apps to pay for purchases at cash registers and gas pumps,...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Hunter; C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); GLIMPSE, NASA/JPL-Caltech A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled stellar nursery, recently roared to...

Polar cod fulfil a key role in the Arctic food web, as they are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds alike....

The participation of civil society organisations in the international REDD+ programmes seeking to reduce deforestation, forest degradation and CO² emissions could play a key role...

Credit: Journal of Economic Entomology Annapolis, MD; March 8, 2017 -- Not all bed bugs are created equal, and some of the leading bed bug...

Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method could soon be used to...