Replacement flame retardants present serious risks, caution scientists. New flame retardants escaping from our TVs,…
Researchers from Boston College, MIT, and UC Santa Barbara reveal an elusive atomic-scale magnetic ‘signal’…
Scientists study how charged particles arrange themselves into crystalline patterns and apply what they learn…
New method used to study planets’ geochemistry implies that Earth is not unique. Earth-like planets…
The first complete genetic sequences of individual mountain lions point the way to better conservation…
Probing nucleosynthesis in star-like conditions using the world’s biggest laser at NIF. On a typical…
The leading edges of aircraft wings have to meet a very demanding set of characteristics.…
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by…
New technique doubles the highest electron energy ever produced by a laser plasma accelerator, bringing…
The world’s weirdest little primate has gotten even weirder, thanks to the discovery of a…
A research team centered at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and Tokyo Medical and…
A school-based human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization program in British Columbia, Canada, is dramatically reducing rates…
The Plasma Liner Experiment will soon test the potential for a novel plasma fusion concept,…
Advances in the fields of soft robotics, wearable technologies, and human/machine interfaces require a new…
Researchers have shown for the first time that fatty tissue accumulates in the airway walls,…
“Weather” in clusters of galaxies may explain a long-standing puzzle, according to a team of…
Each October, the Nobel Prizes are an opportunity to celebrate science. Unfortunately, this year’s prizes…
Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather than collapsing…