Technology and Engineering

Credit: Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos The efficiency of many applications deriving from natural sciences depends dramatically on a finite-size property of nanoparticles,...

Some 2 billion X-rays are performed around the world every year. But the average radiology clinic is understaffed. Radiologists are...

Contrary to what many economists suggest (see, for example, an article in The Economist entitled Hang On, published in September...

X-ray free-electron lasers, first realized a decade ago, produce the brightest X-rays on the planet, and scientists tap into these...

More walkable neighborhoods, parks and public transit could all reduce your chance of becoming one of the 600 million adults...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Corporations, small businesses and public sector entities have tried unsuccessfully for years to educate consumers and employees...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named 2,000 individuals as this year's recipients of awards from the Graduate Research Fellowship...

Using reprogrammed iPS cells, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Japan have, along with collaborators from...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Lucio Isa Scientists at ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have developed a new technique that...

Many materials - sugars, thermoplastics, glass, metals, ceramics and more -- are used to produce 3D-printed figures, typically with expensive...

The number of science and engineering graduate students at U.S. academic institutions rose by 3 percent between 2013 and 2014,...

By chemically modifying and pulverizing a promising group of compounds, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes seizures of many different types. Recent research from Japan has found that epileptic...

How vascular tubes build, maintain and adapt continuously perfused lumens to meet local metabolic needs remains poorly understood. Recent studies...

RICHLAND, Wash. - An improved titanium alloy -- stronger than any commercial titanium alloy currently on the market -- gets...

PHILADELPHIA--(March 31, 2016)--The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is transmitted through mosquitoes and causes fever and joint pain that can sometimes become...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 31, 2016 - A 20-kilowatt wireless charging system demonstrated at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National...

Renowned researcher, entrepreneur and solar energy expert D. Yogi Goswami of the University of South Florida has been named the...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a compact, portable pharmaceutical manufacturing system that can be reconfigured to produce a...