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Physicists have known for decades that particles called gluons keep protons and neutrons intact—and thereby hold the universe together. Yet the details of how gluons function remain... --

(VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) Foam forming technology offers companies major cost saving possibilities in paper and paperboard manufacturing. It also expands the use of natural fibers in the production of re...

Every wine connoisseur knows the value of an aged wine, but few get the opportunity to sample 170-year-old champagne from the bottom of the sea.

Imagine a trio of aerobatic aircraft. Over the years they've gotten very good at their routine. But they want to add another five or six or seven members. --

While a system to wirelessly charge objects has been around for more than a century, it's only now becoming popular because of improvements in technology.

Originally published: Apr 16 2015 - 8:45am, Inside Science TVBy: Karin Heineman, Executive Producer(Inside Science TV) - Beer! Most Americans choose it over all other alcoholic beverages.It's also one of the world's olde...

Chemical analysis of champagne from a shipwreck reveals the wine "kept its intrinsic characteristics", despite 200 years at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Why do different groups of people have vastly different views of right and wrong? Archaeologist Ian Morris thinks he's found what's really fuelling our values (full text available to subscribers)

Chemical analysis of champagne from a shipwreck reveals the wine "kept its intrinsic characteristics", despite 200 years at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

he FBI has admitted that flawed evidence was accepted in nearly all of the trials that took place over the 1980s and 90s. Is hair analysis still any use at all?

Alex Leonessa, NSF program director for General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering, describes key challenges in creating truly useful robotic systems to supplementing humans. DARwin-OP, the soccer-playing robot, illu...

The snails have shrunk to adapt to acidic seas, an effect expected in marine species with shells as oceans keep acidifying

Unlike other squid or octopuses, the deep-sea vampire squid ekes out its reproductive efforts across its slow, long life

On April 19, 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore (then of Fairchild Semiconductor) published a paper on the fledgling technology of integrated circuits. In the paper, Moore noted that the number of...

Watch a collection of tiny beating hearts and a heart fused to a liver, made using techniques that could one day help build a human on a chip

A viral stowaway in our DNA rebuffs other viruses and activates genes when embryos are days old, supporting the idea that viruses are our silent controllers

Storing excess energy with carbon dioxide compressed underground could help even out our energy flow and clean up the atmosphere

HUMAN beings are a distractible bunch, and their propensity to be elsewhere, mentally speaking, is particularly dangerous when they are motoring. Attempts to deal with this go back a long way. In 1953, for example, the G...

In defense of scientism and the joys of self-publishing -- Life underground: Anything anyone would teach me -- Building a neutrino detector -- Mapping the cosmos: Dark Energy Survey creates detailed guide to spotting dar...

Water is one of the most common and extensively studied substances on earth. It is vital for all known forms of life but its unique behaviour has yet to be explained in terms of the properties of individual molecules.

The Polar V800 is a GPS watch that tracks a wide variety of sports -- from running and swimming to yoga, dance and CrossFit.

Astronomers watching galaxies collide found evidence of nongravitational forces that could suggest dark matter interacts with itself   --