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With the continuing need for very small devices in therapeutic applications, there is a growing demand for the development of nanoparticles that can transport and deliver drugs to target cells in the human body.

Next summer, the DARPA Robotics Challenge will draw to a close with a $2-million final competition in Southern California.

Aereo Antenna Array Aereo Yesterday, in a 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court in ABC v. Aereo, the government ruled that Aereo's streaming of cable TV over the web is illegal. In the process, the Supreme Court majority sho...

Artist Patricia Olynyk explores how people sense their physical environments, and how those perceptions impact understanding.

A new report that graded the water quality of beaches across the United States found that 10 percent of the country's shores are contaminated or polluted. The report also identified 35 "superstar" beaches and 17 "repeat ...

What may be the world's oldest reef built by the earliest known skeletal animals has been discovered in Namibia. Take a photo journey through the reef, where you can see the fossilized remains of the reef-building animal...

Older adults who tech novices, but learned to use an iPad showed improvements in their thinking and memory skills, a new study finds.

The assumption that the cosmos is symmetrical over large scales is an elegant one, but how far must evidence deviate from expectations before we rethink it?

The gruesome eye injuries depicted on the TV show "American Horror Story" are being used to warn consumers about the dangers of wearing decorative contact lenses, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today.

What is believed to be the smallest force ever measured has been detected by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley. Using a combination o...

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have constructed liquid crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by an external magnetic field. The research opens the door to d...

By fusing together the concepts of active fiber sensors and high-temperature fiber sensors, a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has created an all-optical high-temperature sensor for gas flow measuremen...

The chemical used to make tofu and bath salts could also replace a highly toxic and expensive substance used to make solar cells, a University study published in the journal Nature has revealed.

Remember those molecule models made from sticks and balls you could assemble to study complex molecules back in school? Something similar has taken shape in the Interactive Geometry Lab at ETH Zurich. ETH-professor Olga ...

Everything depends on how you look at them. Looking from one side you will see one face; and when looking from the opposite side -- you will see a different one. So appear Janus capsules, miniature, hollow structures, in...

Green-chemistry researchers at McGill University have discovered a way to use water as a solvent in one of the reactions most widely used to synthesize chemical products and pharmaceuticals.

Radiation experiments on the International Space Station hint that life on early Earth may have survived in protective shields created by asteroid impacts

A dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents matches a major reset in Earth's ice ages about 1 million years ago, new evidence from the South Atlantic seafloor suggests.

Just south of the Atacama desert, prototype fog catchers are watering Chilean farms struggling with drought and climate change

The weather outside was frightful but a late-night Minnesota snowstorm let a team trace turbulent airflow around wind turbines with snowflakes

Now that summer is here, a trip to the beach should bring familiar smells: seawater, sunscreen and, depending where you live, sewage. One in ten recreational beaches in the United States isn't fit for swimming, according...

Drinking alcohol excessively is responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).