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Those who wish to renovate their houses and make them more energy-efficient often use the well-known yellow to blue thermal images to visually identify weak spots applying infra-red measurements. Thermographic imaging is...

(Phys.org)--In an attempt to harvest the kinetic energy of airflow, researchers have demonstrated the ability to harvest energy directly from the vibrations of a flexible, piezoelectric beam placed in a wind tunnel. Whil...

Got questions about artificial intelligence? Stephen Hawking has answers.

When you order fish at a restaurant, you may not be getting what you think. The F.D.A. approves lists of fish species that can be grouped into labels such as snappers and groupers. The International advocacy organization...

Leprosy is often thought to be an ancient disease, but leprosy-causing bacteria continue to infect people in the southern United States, including in Florida, where nine people have been diagnosed with the disease so far...

A number of prominent scientists have signed on to a letter warning that autonomous weapons should be banned.

In a new blow for the futuristic "supersymmetry" theory of the universe's basic anatomy, experts reported fresh evidence Monday of subatomic activity consistent with the mainstream Standard Model of particle physics.

Not long ago, schoolchildren chose what they wanted to be when they grew up, and later selected the best college they could gain admission to, spent years gaining proficiency in...

The discovery of a previously unknown type of metal deformation - sinuous flow - and a method to suppress it could lead to more efficient machining and other manufacturing advances by reducing the force and energy requir...

Geneva/Vienna, 27 July 2015. The world particle-physics community has convened in Vienna for the 2015 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2015), where the latest results in the field are b...

Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than any known substance.

A new result from the LHCb collaboration weakens previous hints at the existence of a new type of W boson. A measurement released today by the LHCb collaboration dumped some cold water on previous results that suggested ...

Autistic children are just as good at reading emotions from the body as those without - they just don't like the closeness that interpreting emotions from faces requires

Transmitting large amounts of data, such as those needed to keep the internet running, requires high-performance modulators that turn electric signals into light signals. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a mo...

A $610 million research and manufacturing hub dedicated to the science of photonics--the use of light in technology--will be developed in western New York, federal and state officials said Monday, which could mean thousa...

Quantum technology based on light (photons) has great potential for radically new information technology based on photonic circuits. Up to now, the photons in quantum photonic circuits have behaved in the same way whethe...

The 37 million people using the Ashley Madison adultery service have to pay to have their accounts deleted, but deleting yourself online might be impossible

Multi-stability, or coexistence of multiple behaviors, is a universal phenomenon found in almost all areas of science in nature, from lasers and chemical reactions to climate or the brain. The phenomenon of multi-stabili...

The European Union is funding a mirror-like device containing 3D scanners, multispectral cameras and gas sensors to read facial clues to health

A prehistoric disaster, possibly an epidemic, may be responsible for the remains of nearly 100 bodies found stuffed into a 5,000-year-old house in northeast China.

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) A team at CSHL has developed a strikingly new approach for treating Rett syndrome, a devastating autism spectrum disorder. In a paper appearing today they demonstrate that treatment with s...

(University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute) Quantum technology based on light (photons) has great potential for radically new information technology based on photonic circuits. Now researchers from the Niels Bohr I...