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Researchers trained machine learning algorithms to pinpoint the location of a cargo ship simply by eavesdropping on the sound of its passing. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

Researchers at Duke University have devised a way to see through walls using a narrow band of microwave frequencies without any advance knowledge of what the walls are made out of. Besides having obvious applications in ...

"CORPORATE conferences still suck." So read the T-shirt sported by Ben Recht, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as he collected an award at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference...

On the battlefield, it may not be possible to stitch up eyeball injuries. A glue that responds to body temperature can plug up wounds until help is available

The object grew to more than 800 million times the mass of the sun when the cosmos was only 5 percent its present age --

In 2006, Caltech's Paul Rothemund (BS '94)--now research professor of bioengineering, computing and mathematical sciences, and computation and neural systems--developed a method to fold a long strand of DNA into a prescr...

A quasar from the early universe could help us understand how the biggest black holes form and when the universe had its last major transformation

Malicious code exploits are the new weapons of war, but can we ever reach international agreement on how they should be used and who gets to control them?

A vast international experiment designed to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable source of energy is halfway toward completion, the organization behind the project said Wednesday.

Clare Wilson visits a body-parts workshop where limbs, hearts and kidneys are reanimated, with the aim of improving transplants and developing new treatments

The evidence suggests the discovery of aliens would not cause panic.

Touted as a promising alternative energy source for decades, solar panels crown rooftops and roadside signs, and help keep spacecraft powered. But how do solar panels work?

Mule deer are devouring the world's largest organism, a colony of quaking aspen in Utah.

What if the secret to eternal happiness is a brain implant? If you're thinking that sounds like the premise of a Black Mirror episode, you're not alone. Yet at the Society for Neuroscience annual conference earlier this ...

Trees with ants of a certain temperament suffered the least leaf damage.

Budweiser is sending barley seeds into orbit next week. That's just the beginning of the challenge of trying to brew beer beyond Earth

Did the universe begin with the Big Bang, or has it been expanding and contracting infinitely? A new study uses black hole physics to argue for the latter.

Fossilized remains of an extinct species of horseshoe crab, named after Darth Vader because the animal's bizarre shape resembles the "Star Wars" character's iconic helmet, were discovered in Idaho.

Achieving strong light-matter interaction at the quantum level has always been a central task in quantum physics since the emergence of quantum information and quantum control. However, the scale mismatch between the qua...

The hauntingly beautiful "wailing" sounds of early New Orleans jazz clarinets, often featured in brass bands or jazz funerals, are one of the most distinctive instrument styles in American music. The unique sound begs th...

Microwave ovens are often a fast way of warming food and have become a staple cooking appliance in both household kitchens and restaurants alike. If you have looked closely at the microwave's warnings or have experienced...

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