Technology

Researchers based at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to stop the quantum dance of atoms ‘seen’ by…

We are living in a very noisy world. From the hum of traffic outside your window to the next-door neighbor’s…

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Drexel University in Philadelphia, along with Brookhaven National Laboratory, are working to solve…

Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth’s scalding and uninhabitable neighbor, became so dry….

Proximity is key for many quantum phenomena, as interactions between atoms are stronger when the particles are close. In many…

The interest in antimicrobial solutions for personal and multi-user touch screens, such as tablets and mobile devices, has grown in…

A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human…

A new study co-authored by Sophie Janicke-Bowles, associate professor in Chapman University’s School of Communication, sheds light on the role…

Research led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that small changes in the…

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pittsburgh studied how the spin information of an electron, called…

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment…

On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the Nevada desert was the launch…

AI holds the potential to help doctors find early markers of disease and policymakers to avoid decisions that lead to…

By modifying a refrigerator commonly used in both research and industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology…

Common household products containing nanoparticles — grains of engineered material so miniscule they are invisible to the eye — could…

Researchers who want to bridge the divide between biology and technology spend a lot of time thinking about translating between…

Researchers at Aalto University were looking for better ways to instruct dance choreography in virtual reality. The new WAVE technique…

Using the Gemini South telescope a team of astronomers have confirmed for the first time that differences in binary stars’…

Imagine predicting the exact finishing order of the Kentucky Derby from a still photograph taken 10 seconds into the race….

A recent United Nations report found that the world generated 137 billion pounds of electronic waste in 2022, an 82%…

Researchers Kazuaki Takasan and Kyogo Kawaguchi of the University of Tokyo with Kyosuke Adachi of RIKEN, Japan’s largest comprehensive research…

Whether you’re trying to predict a climate catastrophe or mental health crisis, mathematics tells us to look for fluctuations. Changes…

Researchers have developed a compact and lightweight single-photon airborne lidar system that can acquire high-resolution 3D images with a low-power…

Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which…

Freeze casting is an elegant, cost-effective manufacturing technique to produce highly porous materials with custom-designed hierarchical architectures, well-defined pore orientation,…

A team of researchers led by Professor Philip C.Y. Chow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of…

It’s the most fundamental of processes — the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, the burning…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared that removing carbon from the atmosphere is now essential to fighting climate…

Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students at the University of Bristol…

Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, using nothing more than a…

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable metal alloy that won’t crack at extreme temperatures due to kinking, or bending, of crystals…

Observing individual cells through microscopes can reveal a range of important cell biological phenomena that frequently play a role in…

An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum…

Researchers have developed a new shoe insole technology that helps reduce the risk of diabetic foot ulcers, a dangerous open…

The Standard Model of Particle Physics is scientists’ best understanding of the forces that describe how subatomic particles interact. The…

Inspired by what human liver enzymes can do, Scripps Research chemists have developed a new set of copper-catalyzed organic synthesis…

Contrary to previous assumptions, nerve cells in the human neocortex are wired differently than in mice. Those are the findings…

A new robotic suction cup which can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been developed by scientists at the…

Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable. However, decision-makers have been reluctant to invest…

Understanding how proteins interact with each other is crucial for developing new treatments and understanding diseases. Thanks to computational advances,…

Just as sat-nav did away with the need to argue over the best route home, scientists from the University of…

Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments. The researchers, from the University…

To save on fuel and reduce aircraft emissions, engineers are looking to build lighter, stronger airplanes out of advanced composites….

Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was…

As one of the first health systems in the country to pilot the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to…

Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe…

What if changes in a person’s stress levels could be detected while they sleep using wearable devices? A new study…

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) found AI-generated messages made recipients feel…

A star’s magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of their exoplanets from observations by…

The rise of RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for new ways to fight them. RNA-targeting tools like CRISPR/Cas13…

An international research team led by a researcher from the University of Vienna has for the first time directly detected…

In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded,…

The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a…

When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were…

The potential of quantum technology is huge but is today largely limited to the extremely cold environments of laboratories. Now,…

A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and the AI chatbot would likely…

UC Davis Health cardiology team members are among the first in the country to treat patients with tricuspid regurgitation, or…

Today wirelessly connected devices are performing an expanding array of applications, such as monitoring the condition of engines and machinery…

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy have developed a new method to…

Our muscles are nature’s perfect actuators — devices that turn energy into motion. For their size, muscle fibers are more…

Hear the words E. coli or salmonella and food poisoning comes to mind. Rapid detection of such bacteria is crucial…

Optical sensors serve as the backbone of numerous scientific and technological endeavors, from detecting gravitational waves to imaging biological tissues…

The active ingredient in many drugs is what’s known as a small molecule: bigger than water, much smaller than an…

If you were to throw a message in a bottle into a black hole, all of the information in it,…

The CHEOPS space telescope, whose scientific operations centre is based at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), is providing new information…

Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into…

Despite their ancient ages, some stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole appear deceptively youthful. But unlike humans,…

A research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with the University of Alaska-Anchorage and Columbia University,…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a programmable metafluid with…

With the evolution of artificial intelligence comes discussion of the technology’s environmental impact. A new study has found that for…

Energy harvesting, an eco-friendly technology, extends beyond solar and wind power in generating electricity from unused or discarded energy in…

Using a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it experiment, researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that individuals differ widely in the rate at which…

Manufacturers of secondary battery cells (LG Energy Solution, Samsung SDI, and SK on) have been insisting on very stringent purity…

Among the many chemicals we use every day, ammonia is one of the worst for the atmosphere. The nitrogen-based chemical…

Metaphorically speaking, that’s the question one team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been…

Researchers developed materials and processes that can improve the efficiencies of molecular transformations driven by visible light. A breakthrough in…

The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution…

Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a…

Metalenses, nano-artificial structures capable of manipulating light, offer a technology that can significantly reduce the size and thickness of traditional…

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion. But its…

Iron screws and other so-called ferromagnetic materials are made up of atoms with electrons that act like little magnets. Normally,…

A research team led by the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has…

The beautiful, gnarled, nooked-and-crannied reefs that surround tropical islands serve as a marine refuge and natural buffer against stormy seas….

Dedicated memory tests on smartphones enable the detection of “mild cognitive impairment,” a condition that may indicate Alzheimer’s disease, with…

A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, has revealed that these…

The world approaches an environmental tipping point, and our decisions now regarding energy, resources, and the environment will have profound…

From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many…

A real-world study by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has shown that the use of cool paint…

The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial…

Researchers at McMaster University and Stanford University have invented a new generative artificial intelligence model which can design billions of…

Water eletrolysis process is a system that produces hydrogen by electrolyzing water. It is an eco-friendly technology that can produce…

Scientists believe that planetary systems like our solar system contain more rocky objects than gas-rich ones. Around our sun, these…

The solar energy world is ready for a revolution. Scientists are racing to develop a new type of solar cell…

Microplastics are tiny, nearly indestructible fragments shed from everyday plastic products. As we learn more about microplastics, the news keeps…

Astronomers have identified what could be two of the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks: Named “Shakti” and “Shiva,” these appear…

In a project aimed at democratizing science and fostering educational enrichment, a group of high school students from the Galaxy…

Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a…

There’s a patch of concrete on Drexel University’s campus that could portend a frost-free future for sidewalks and highways in…

There are many ways to store data — digitally, on a hard disk, or using analogue storage technology, for example…

Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they…

Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and…

The current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it’s made of ‘normal matter,’ ‘dark energy’ and…

A research team, led by Professor Seok Ju Kang in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, has…

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have successfully developed a new technique for deciphering the properties…

People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who are recovering from laryngeal cancer surgeries, can…

In a study published on January 18, 2024 in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers from Tohoku University theoretically linked…

Rice University synthetic biologists have found a way to piggyback on the glucose monitoring technology used in automated insulin dosing…

Scientists recently published the results of a competition that put researchers to the test. For the competition, part of the…

Electrical engineers at Duke University have determined the theoretical fundamental limit for how much electromagnetic energy a transparent material with…

We are all aware of the dangers of pollution to our air, water, and earth. In a letter recently published…

Global GDP loss from climate change will increase exponentially the warmer the planet gets when its cascading impact on global…

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment, Boston…

Sand ripples are fascinating. They are symmetrical, yet wind — which causes them — is very much not. Furthermore, they…

Cicadas are the soundtrack of summer, but their pee is more special than their music. Rather than sprinkling droplets, they…

The ‘ultrasound-photoacoustic dual-modal imaging system’ combines molecular imaging contrast with ultrasound imaging, and it can visualize molecular and structural information…

Adhesive tape or sticky notes are easy to attach to a surface, but can be difficult to remove. This phenomenon,…

Optical properties of afterglow luminescent particles (ALPs) in mechanoluminescence (ML) and mechanical quenching (MQ) have attracted great attention for diverse…

When you teach a child how to solve puzzles, you can either let them figure it out through trial and…

The DNA carries the genetic information of all living organisms and consists of only four different building blocks, the nucleotides….

Evaporation is a natural process so ubiquitous that most of us take it for granted. In fact, roughly half of…

A team of physicists has developed a method to detect gravity waves with such low frequencies that they could unlock…

The James Webb Space Telescope makes one of the most unexpected findings within its first year of service: A high…

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from…

A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using…

Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining the true nature of dark…

Catalysts unlock pathways for chemical reactions to unfold at faster and more efficient rates, and the development of new catalytic…

Scientists led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher are closing in on a new tool for tackling the global…

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell that can achieve…

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy…

Falling from the tip of a brush suspended in mid-air, an ink droplet touches a painted surface and blossoms into…

The question of where the boundary between classical and quantum physics lies is one of the longest-standing pursuits of modern…

To find out how planetary systems such as our Solar System form, an international research team including scientists from the…

Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the…

Score another one for artificial intelligence. In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests…

In a collaborative effort to improve the food industry, Dr. Mustafa Akbulut, professor of chemical engineering, and Dr. Luis Cisneros-Zevallos,…

Jellyfish can’t do much besides swim, sting, eat, and breed. They don’t even have brains. Yet, these simple creatures can…

Cornell University astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of…

Organic materials discovered on Mars may have originated from atmospheric formaldehyde, according to new research, marking a step forward in…

Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, mirror-image versions, akin to the…

A new tool could reduce costs for diagnosing infectious diseases. Biomedical researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have…

Cooking on your gas stove can emit more nano-sized particles into the air than vehicles that run on gas or…

When a star like our Sun reaches the end of its life, it can ingest the surrounding planets and asteroids…

Uppsala University is the new world record holder for electrical energy generation from CIGS solar cells. The new world record…

Mars was once a wet world. The geological record of the Red Planet shows evidence for water flowing on the…

In the three years since NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars, the NASA science team has made the daily…

Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be…

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have unveiled a novel concept termed “supercritical coupling” that enables several folds…

Luke Skywalker’s childhood might have been slightly less harsh if he’d grown up on a more temperate Tatooine — like…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site…

Nearly 30 years ago, scientists discovered a unique class of anticancer molecules in a family of bryozoans, a phylum of…

If the fractional quantum Hall regime were a series of highways, these highways would have either two or four lanes….

Imagine doubling the processing power of your smartphone, tablet, personal computer, or server using the existing hardware already in these…

The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime…

Biomolecules such as amino acids and sugars occur in two mirror-image forms — in all living organisms, however, only one…

A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way’s greatest secrets:  an enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds…

Throughout human history, technologies have been used to make peoples’ lives richer and more comfortable, but they have also contributed…

A research team from Osaka Metropolitan University that had previously succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid using bicarbonate and pyruvic acid,…

In the past decade, humanity has seen the birth and expansion of a commercial space sector with new, private players,…

Making quantum systems more scalable is one of the key requirements for the further development of quantum computers because the…

Creating a quantum computer powerful enough to tackle problems we cannot solve with current computers remains a big challenge for…

Volcanoes are a common feature on the surfaces of solid planets within the solar system, resulting from magmatic activity occurring…

One of the grand challenges for materials science is the design and discovery of new materials that address global priorities…

A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris…

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), scientists at the Marine Genomics Unit, in collaboration with the Japanese…

In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an electron while “freezing” the motion…

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has created 20 new recombinant rabies viral vectors for neural…

Canadian researchers led by Montreal radiologist Gilles Soulez have developed a novel approach to treat liver tumours using magnet-guided microrobots…

Millions of U.S. households would benefit from heat pumps, but the cost of installing the technology needs to come down…

A group of researchers have used equipment originally intended for astronomy observation to capture transformations in the nuclear structure of…

A chemical element so visually striking that it was named for a goddess shows a “Goldilocks” level of reactivity —…

You can mend a broken heart this valentine’s day now that researchers invented a new hydrogel that can be used…

Materials just atoms in thickness, known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, are set to revolutionize future technology, including in the electronics…

The properties of normal materials, such as stiffness and flexibility, are determined by the molecular composition of the material, but…

The looming threat of climate change has motivated scientists worldwide to look for cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels, and many…

Engineers at the University of Cincinnati created a more efficient way of converting carbon dioxide into valuable products while simultaneously…

Semiconductors are ubiquitous in modern technology, working to either enable or prevent the flow of electricity. In order to understand…

Researchers have developed a sensor made from ‘frozen smoke’ that uses artificial intelligence techniques to detect formaldehyde in real time…

In quantum sensing, atomic-scale quantum systems are used to measure electromagnetic fields, as well as properties like rotation, acceleration, and…

In most materials, heat prefers to scatter. If left alone, a hotspot will gradually fade as it warms its surroundings….

Generative artificial intelligence platforms, from ChatGPT to Midjourney, grabbed headlines in 2023. But GenAI can do more than create collaged…

Futuristic advancements in AI and healthcare stole the limelight at the tech extravaganza Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024. However, battery…

An international research team led by NIMS, the Osaka University Graduate School of Science and the Kanazawa University Nano Life…

Earth’s moon achieved its Swiss cheese appearance from celestial objects crashing into its surface, forming impact craters. But craters weren’t…

You feel a pain, so you pop a couple of ibuprofen or acetaminophen. If the pain is severe or chronic,…

Research involving Oregon State University has shown that a “swarm” of more than 100 autonomous ground and aerial robots can…

AI systems, such as GPT-4, can now learn and use human language, but they learn from astronomical amounts of language…

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has developed the first 3D-printed brain tissue that can grow and function like…

The study of “exoplanets,” the sci-fi-sounding name for all planets in the cosmos beyond our own solar system, is a…

Researchers at the universities of Mainz, Olomouc, and Tokyo succeeded in generating a logical qubit from a single light pulse…

Oxidation can degrade the properties and functionality of metals. However, a research team co-led by scientists from City University of…

Many people are familiar with facial recognition systems that unlock smartphones and game systems or allow access to our bank…