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Environmentalists have welcomed the Clean Power Plan, which steers the US towards a lower-carbon future, but some say more needs to be done

Researchers from the Laboratory of Nanooptics and Plasmonics at the MIPT Center of Nanoscale Optoelectronics have developed a new method for optical communication on a chip, which will could decrease the size of optical ...

Cities are getting ever more sophisticated, automated and "smart". But this only increases their vulnerability to hacking

Creating a slow-motion effect in real life takes some creativity, but with the help of a few strobe lights and a frequency generator, the folks at Pasco put together one that's truly mesmerizing, on top of being educatio...

Infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria are projected to increase in the United States if no action is taken soon.

The high-profile disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains a mystery -- but the recent discovery of a possible wing part points to an ocean landing, raising hopes for a resolution.

Microtubules, hollow fibers of tubulin protein only a few nanometers in diameter, form the cytoskeletons of living cells and play a crucial role in cell division (mitosis) through their ability to undergo rapid growth an...

Bariatric surgery may lead to long-term changes in people's gut bacteria that contribute to weight loss following the procedure, a new study from Sweden suggests.

Extreme stress, such as that experienced by burn victims, may lead white fat to convert into calorie-burning brown fat, new research finds.

Terahertz radiation, the no-man's land of the electromagnetic spectrum, has long stymied researchers. Optical technologies can finagle light in the shorter-wavelength visible and infrared range, while electromagnetic tec...

Studies of the impact a droplet makes on solid surfaces hark back more than a century. And until now, it was generally believed that a droplet's impact on a solid surface could always be separated into two phases: spread...

The fossilized remains of an ancient marine reptile with an extremely long neck and paddlelike appendages were recently uncovered in an unlikely place: the side of a cliff in Alaska.

Children often ask simple questions that make you wonder if you really understand your subject. An young acquaintance of mine named Collin wondered why the colors of the rainbow were always in the same order--red, orange...

Tests that detect changes in genes triggered by drugs could bolster the use of a biological passport - if athletics will spend more on research

A probe inserted into a person's brain can alert intensive-care staff to a critical drop in energy supply, potentially saving the patient's life

Ancient mammal-like reptiles that once grazed across the globe may have possessed many of the fighting tactics seen in modern herbivores, including head butting and attacks with giant fangs.

(American Institute of Physics) David Kramer of Physics Today discusses the negative impact that the conflict in eastern Ukraine has had on physicists and students forced to relocate from their homes and universities. Mo...

(Washington University in St. Louis) African fish called mormyrids communicate by means of electric signals. Fish in one group can glean detailed information from a signal's waveform, but fish in another group are insens...

(Carnegie Institution) Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions will alter the way that Americans heat and cool their homes. By the end of this century, the number of days each year that heating and air conditio...

(University of Colorado at Boulder) Cleaning up municipal and industrial wastewater can be dirty business, but engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an innovative wastewater treatment process tha...

(Institute of Physics) Many mammals, including seals and rats, rely on their whiskers to sense their way through dark environments. Inspired by these animals, scientists working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch...

(Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard) A Wyss Institute team led by Core Faculty member George Church has developed new biosensors that could improve control and complexity of metabolically eng...