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Waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleratio...
Researchers at MIT have shown that they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithi...
Neuroscientists at MIT have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light....
A new study led by Oregan State University shows that declining populations of "apex" predators such as wolves, lions or sharks has led to a...
New research out of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine says that cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem...
Michigan State University researchers have designed robots that, in the future, could be ocean-going and cooperatively track moving targets...
Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncan...
Longer toes and a unique ankle structure provide some sprinters with the burst of acceleration that separates them from other runners, accor...
A new analysis of climate risk, published by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, shows that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can su...
Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings, and researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered how....
A new study done by researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that when a TV is on in a room both the quantity and the quality of...
A new computer algorithm developed at the University of Washington uses hundreds of thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct...
An international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 milli...
A team of researchers in Denmark, at the University of California, Davis, and at UC Berkeley have identified a group of plant proteins that...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say you're more likely to scan a room, jumping from object to object as you search...
University of Utah mathematicians have developed a brand new cloaking method that functions through wave cancellation and could someday shie...
Stanford engineers and others have created a structural design that lets buildings rock during earthquakes, then correct themselves when the...
A Northwestern University study is the first of its kind and demostrates that having musical training can help a listener distinguish betwee...
Oregon State University researchers are pioneering the concept of "rich interaction" -- computers that do, in fact, want to communicate with...
University of Illinois researchers report that they have assembled a new cancer drug delivery system that, in a cell culture, is able kill t...
An international team of researchers deduced that early modern humans living on the coast of the southern tip of Africa used fire to increas...
A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a proce...
Reseachers at the University of Michigan are using sound waves to push sample fluids through tiny detectors that are only millimeters or cen...
Using nanodiamonds, researchers at Northwestern University have deomonstrated a method for delivering and releasing curative medicines to a...
A team of computer scientists at the University of Washington developed a prototype system called Vanish that can place a time limit on info...
Chemists at Stanford University have created new algorithms that use the computer technology behind today's video game systems to rapidly ca...
A new study out of Harvard and the University of Virginia finds that you are more likely to know what will make you happy if you ask a total...
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are studying the physical property of repelling water known as super-hydrophobia. Through...
The threat of climate change can still be greatly diminished if nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent during this century...
A Caltech biologist and his research team have indentified how the antennea of fruit flies process the feeling of wind and then how the flie...
Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Melbourne, Australia, are fabricating organic semiconducting materials from a gentle...
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has determined that gases rising from deep within the Earth, fuel the world's highest know...
Two researchers at Brigham Young University are studying the impacts of global warming on Antartica's ecosystem by looking at the relationsh...
Scientists at the Universities of Maryland and Michigan along with those at the Joint Quantum Institute have, for the first time ever, suces...
New research conducted by the Univeristy of Washington and Stanford University shows that a rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously d...
A research team at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has uncovered what makes plastics so malleable. Molecules that make up plastics ca...
Researchers at the University of Central Florida are teaming up with the Virtual Reality Medical Center to immerse stroke survivors in a vir...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities are studying a remarkable species of becteria that produces electric current when att...
A research team at Penn State University has used chemicals to create nano-motors that drive nanoparticles from one location to another.
Researchers at Purdue University and The Catholic University of America have proposed a new mechanism for how the motor inside of a virus wo...
A professor at Brown University has determined that men's faces tend to have a more reddish skin tone, while a greenish facial skin tone is...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities are studying a remarkable species of becteria that produces electric current when att...
Georgetown University researcher studies subset of bottlenose dolphin that uses marine sponges as a tool to hunt for food.
Researchers at the University of Central Florida are teaming up with the Virtual Reality Medical Center to immerse stroke survivors in a vir...
Brain scans of young, aggressive bullies suggest they may actually enjoy seeing others in pain, according to a new University of Chicago stu...
An ultra-high-strength composite metal foam developed by engineers at North Carolina State University helps absorb the energy from impacts b...
Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College currently advises a team of researchers, who also happen to be inmates at Cedar Creek Corrections...
Iowa State researchers are working on creating high tech networks of underground sensors that could be buried throughout a farmer's field to...
A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemoth...
Pine bark beetles appear to be doing more than killing large swaths of forests in the Rocky Mountains. Scientists at the National Center for...