As part of an engineering test, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth…
Integrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft…
Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy…
Human cancers often have a little recognized ally — the increased size and number of…
A hole at the heart of a stunning rose-like interstellar cloud has puzzled astronomers for…
Twenty-five years of satellite data prove climate models are correct in predicting that sea levels…
Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy…
This ghostly image features a distant and pulsating red giant star known as R Sculptoris.…
The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has for the first time…
On Sunday, February 11, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a total solar…
Neurons are the star of the show in brain science, but MIT researchers believe they…
Most sensitive web transactions are protected by public-key cryptography, a type of encryption that lets…
A Yale-led research team has developed an antibody that blocks tumors in animal models of…
New insights from neutron analysis of glaucoma drugs and their enzyme target may help scientists…
A team of researchers led by Northwestern University professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile…
Geophysicists have obtained detailed three-dimensional images of a dangerous megathrust fault west of Costa Rica…
In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers…
The galaxy Arp 220 is ultraluminous (defined as having more than about 300 times the…