New ScienceCast Video Details Coming Sunset Solar Eclipse
A new three minute ScienceCast video details the partial solar eclipse that will be visible in most of the United States on October 23rd. ScienceCasts:…
A new three minute ScienceCast video details the partial solar eclipse that will be visible in most of the United States on October 23rd. ScienceCasts:…
Newly published research details how a team of scientists used a virtual computer experiment to discover information strings with peculiar properties. How did life originate?…
A new independent assessment of the Mars One Mission from MIT engineers reveals that the project may have to take a step back, at least…
Using a combination of laboratory analysis and computer modeling, new research shows that nanoparticles keep their internal crystal structure while deforming like a liquid. A…
A newly published study reveals that killer whales (Orcinus orca) can engage in cross-species vocal learning, revealing that they shifted the types of sounds they…
A newly published study shows that trade is one of the major drivers of biodiversity among lizard species in the Caribbean islands, finding that the…
By simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown, engineers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT were…
A newly published study reveals the importance of earthworms, beetles, and other tiny creatures to the structure of grasslands and the valuable ecosystem services they…
A new study from the University of Cambridge reveals that the Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles) and contains…
In a new research paper, MIT engineers describe the first interactive coding scheme to near optimality on the three classical measures: How much noise can…
New insights into the working mechanism of perovskite-based solar cells could help these solar cells play a prominent role among the renewable energy carriers in…
Researchers at Rice University have developed a cheap hybrid catalyst made from graphene quantum dots that outperforms platinum catalysts for certain reactions within fuel cells….
Using a combination of four standard lenses, researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a “cloaking” device that hides objects when you look at…
New research from the University of Sussex shows that people who frequently use several media devices at the same time have lower grey-matter density in…
Researchers at MIT and Harvard have discovered a way of rendering excitons immune to getting stuck in minuscule defects as they hop through a material,…
Researchers from the University of Connecticut and Yale University have developed a new membrane with highly aligned nanoscale pores that open and close in response…
An international team of scientists has unveiled the first truly semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. New fossils of the massive Cretaceous-era predator reveal it adapted to…
Researchers from Rice University have developed a transparent graphene nanoribbon film that can be used to prevent ice and fog buildup on glass and plastic,…