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News A key obstacle to controlling on Earth the fusion that powers the sun and stars is leakage of energy and particles from plasma, the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei that fuel...

(Credit: Alexander Raths/Shutterstock) An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but several could do the trick. Millions of cardiovascular deaths around the world may be linked to a lack of fruit and vegetable consum...

News Air University's Squadron Officer School students pitched their initial ideas on how to better certain processes within the Air Force to Col. Wayne Straw, the school's commandant, and a panel of subject matter exper...

News In "Avengers: Endgame," Tony Stark warned Scott Lang that sending him into the quantum realm and bringing him back would be a "billion-to-one cosmic fluke." In reality, shrinking a light beam to a nanometer-sized po...

News Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using data from the longstanding Galaxy Zoo project. The new investigation, published in the jour...

News In a search for clues to what may delay or prevent Alzheimer's disease, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report that smarter, more educated people aren't protected from the disease, but do get a cognitive "head sta...

News Uber and other companies have a new place to test their driverless--and pilotless--technology in Fort Worth. The well-known ride-sharing company--which aims to develop an Uber Elevate air taxi system... Contributed ...

Videos On this week's episode Recon Analytics Roger Entner provides insights about what's at stake in the move from 4G to 5G, plus key differences planned for Release 16 and the economic impact of 5G on different countri...

News Ten state attorneys general including New York and California have filed a lawsuit to block the $26 billion proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, citing substantial decreases to competition and consumer harm. Staf...

News An independent U.N. panel called Monday for much greater cooperation to bring digital technology to roughly half the world's people, and a senior Google executive said mobile phones with internet access are being cr...

News The multi-phase collaboration will start with assessments of LTE and 5G connectivity for autonomous cargo drones and piloted aircraft operating in low-altitude airspace. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Carriers

News Ericsson's latest Mobility Report pegs the number of mobile 5G subscriptions by the end of 2024 at 1.9 billion, a nearly 27 percent jump from the vendor's earlier projections. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Ca...

News The joint development team of Prof. Naoya Shibata at the University of Tokyo and JEOL Ltd., has developed a revolutionary electron microscope that incorporates newly designed magnetic objective lenses, and achieved....

News To help train government and industry organizations on how to prevent cyberattacks, as part of a research project for the U.S. Army, scientists at The University of Texas at San Antonio, developed the first framewor...

Videos In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found that our brains are more sensitive to pitch, the harmonic sounds we hear when listening to music... Contributed Author: National Instit...

News The whole world is inevitably moving towards a more sustainable lifestyle. Sustainability of the environment requires changes in the current way of life and introduction of new, more sustainable solutions in our eve...

News A worldwide effort to lower people's blood pressure, cut their sodium intake, and eliminate trans fat from their diet could dramatically reduce the incidence of premature death from cardiovascular... Contributed Aut...

News In a small, square room walled by four feet of concrete, the air smells as if a lightning storm just passed through--crisp and acrid, like cleaning supplies. Outside, that's the smell of lightning ripping apart oxyg...

Blog As driverless cars become more capable and more common, they will change people's travel habits not only around their own communities but across much larger distances. Our research has revealed just... Contributed A...

News The laser that zaps rocks on Mars is commanded by a talented group of engineers and scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory--who also happen to all be women, a rarity in the engineering field. "It's unusual... ...

News Sam Gikandi '05 SM '06 and Eston Kimani '05 have always believed in the potential of Africa's entrepreneurial community. Their years at MIT, beginning in 2001 when they left their home country of Kenya... Contribute...

News Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a completely new way of capturing, amplifying and linking light to matter at the nanolevel... Contributed Author: Chalmers University of Tech...