Technology and Engineering

Researchers at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a system for finding computer bugs in small devices...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have developed a new method to assess...

An international team of scientists including the Lomonosov Moscow State University researcher showed under which conditions a body produces more...

Abuse of prescription opioid medicines used to treat chronic pain has reached epidemic proportions, so much that the White House...

Credit: Jeffrey Hanna CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Most of the world's nations have agreed to make substantial reductions in their greenhouse...

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...