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Sonar devices reveal objects below the surface by directing sound waves into the ocean and recording the sound waves reflected back.

Lasers - devices that deliver beams of highly organized light - are so deeply integrated into modern technology that their basic operations would seem well understood. CD players, medical diagnostics and military surveil...

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Superconductors and magnetic fields do not usually get along. But a research team led by a Brown University physicist has produced new evidence for an exotic superconducting state, first predicted a half-century ago, tha...

Since it was awarded a one billion euro, decade-long research grant last year, the Human Brain Project has been the center of extreme excitement and heavy criticism. The project aims to simulate the human brain in silico...

The lava flow from the Kilauea volcano is headed toward the cemetery in the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii, crossing streets and prompting evacuation notices for people living in the flow's path. The flow was ...

(Carnegie Institution) Proteins are the machinery that accomplishes almost every task in every cell in every living organism. The instructions for how to build each protein are written into a cell's DNA. But once the pro...

Ever wonder what a comet smells like? The European Space Agency's Rosetta Orbiter has been sniffing the coma of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and found it quite pungent, wreaking of rotten eggs, horse manure and formaldehy...

There are two major issues with these anonymous apps: the false sense of anonymity security they provide, and their potential as platforms for bullying.