Technology and Engineering

Whales use a combination of rapid echolocation adjustments and nimble brain responses to zero in on fast-moving prey, suggests a...

(LOS ANGELES) – The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation’s Chief Innovation Officer, Maurizio Vecchione, has recently been awarded the Order...

DURHAM, N.C. -- It’s hard to know what climate change will mean for Earth’s interconnected and interdependent webs of life....

In one of nature’s unexpected bounties, a harmless food-grade solvent has been used to extract highly sought rare-earth metals from...

Big animals have a big impact on the environment. Whales, elephants, bison: They’re the movers and shakers of their ecosystems....

Key takeawaysCredit: American College of Surgeons Key takeaways Despite regional variations in COVID-19-related restrictions, trends in trauma center activity followed...

Sure, you could attach two screens with a hinge and call a cell phone “foldable,” but what if you could...

Most of us control light all the time without even thinking about it, usually in mundane ways: we don a...

Research teams from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their technologies have received seven 2021 R&D 100...

Space scientists from the University of Leicester have delivered a key component for a new mission to study the impact...

In a little over 18 months, the novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) has infected over 18 million people and caused more than...

Scientists have long understood that the region of the brain called the hippocampus is important for memory, learning and navigation.Credit:...

URBANA, Ill. – Financial inclusion is key to improving economic and social welfare, reducing inequality, and promoting economic growth. Globally,...

Grassland soil today experiences increased nutrient inputs, which have dramatic impacts on biodiversity. To help understand this issue, researchers at...

Integrated photonics allow us to build compact, portable, low-power chip-scale optical systems used in commercial products, revolutionizing today’s optical datacenters...

TORONTO, Oct. 21, 2021 – Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere are warming six times faster since 1992 than any other...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. – National Water Research Institute (NWRI) is pleased to announce the 2021 Clarke Prize Laureate is Dr....

NEW YORK (21 October 2021) – The first-ever Africa-wide assessment of great apes – gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees – finds...

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has achieved great success in areas such as computer vision. In the meantime, the rapid evolution...

Once thought to function primarily as a storage molecule for genetic information, it is now known that DNA can also...