Ancient Murals in Guatemala Offer Glimpse of Mayan Astronomy
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of the sophisticated astronomy and the time-keeping rituals of the ancient Mayan people, deep under the earth in the…
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of the sophisticated astronomy and the time-keeping rituals of the ancient Mayan people, deep under the earth in the…
A team of engineers and scientists just completed work on NDCX-II, a special-purpose particle accelerator designed to produce a high-quality, dense beam that can rapidly…
The weak Golbach conjecture states that you can break up any odd number into the sum of, at most, three prime numbers. Prime numbers cannot…
Newly published research from biochemists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine describes how a protein that is required for DNA replication, Cdt1,…
Scientists have been trying to develop feasible retinal implants for decades, but meshing them with the human visual system has always been tricky. James Loudin,…
Neuroscientists from the University of Glasgow have demonstrated that our brains experience the world in discrete snapshots determined by the cycles of brain rhythms. While…
New silicon battery technology is a major step forward in creating smaller, lighter and longer-lasting batteries. The new design contains a double-walled silicon nanotube coated…
A step in the right direction, a VW Passat TDI set the world record for the longest distance on one tank of clean diesel fuel….
Astrophysicists are getting closer to understanding the unexplained force that influences the laws of gravity throughout space. Newly published findings narrow down the possibilities of…
A new study from neurobiologists at Yale University examines the evolutionary changes surrounding the NOS1 gene and suggests that the same evolutionary mechanisms that may…
The future might smell better thanks to scientists at the USDA that are investigating new antimicrobial treatments for clothing. Using an environmentally friendly method to…
To better understand how star formation and black hole activity are linked, scientists are looking back 8 to 12 billion years, a time when star…
Launched in 2007, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began exploring the asteroid Vesta in 2011 and just provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant…
A new study from MIT shows that staggering the delivery of cancer drugs is far more effective than administering them at the same time. The…
Engineers at UC Berkeley released their smartphone-equipped floating robots in the Sacramento River to field test their ability and to demonstrate their water monitoring technology….
Using data from the WISE satellite, scientists discovered an ultra-cool brown dwarf, known as BD+01 2920B, that is about 35 times more massive than Jupiter…
New calculations have shown that the average human gets hit by a particle of dark matter about once a minute. Dark matter, which is supposed…
It was previously thought that making a lens out of highly energetic light, gamma rays, was impossible. Physicists have created such a lens and think…