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Falling may be painful, especially if the landing is less than graceful. Even a few…
Needle pricks not your thing? A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley,…
Atomically thin materials developed by Stanford researchers could create heat-shields for cell phones or laptops…
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates…
Stanford engineers have developed experimental stickers that pick up physiological signals emanating from the skin,…
Scientists develop solution processable ferroelectric nylons. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P)…
Illinois and SLAC researchers use a new technique. One of the greatest mysteries in condensed…
Study demonstrates that network-level brain activity can detect specific types of mental effort. Approximately 1…
New system could free bench chemists from time-consuming tasks, may help inspire new molecules. Guided…
The lab of Cheryl Kerfeld at Michigan State University has created a synthetic nano-sized factory, based on natural…
A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades…
Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this…
Study of the world’s tropical forests pinpoints how much water plants put back into the…
Useful chaos — introduced disorder improves superconductivity. Discovered more than 100 years ago, superconductivity continues…
Possible “topological superconductor” could overcome industry’s problem of quantum decoherence. A potentially useful material for…
Researchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3D images of objects smaller than…
If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter…