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An algorithm can reconstruct pictures a person is looking at from brain scans, could one day be used to tell what someone is thinking

Two atomically thin layers of graphene can be misaligned just slightly to produce a superconductive material for super-efficient energy delivery

(NYU Tandon School of Engineering) Nanomaterials esearchers have devised a method to significantly improve the efficiency of organic solar cells. They used a squaraine molecule to both donate electrons and better orient ...

University of Notre Dame researchers are using neutrons at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to study how specialized molecules might improve petroleum production processes, as well ...

What's it like being a theoretical neutrino physicist working on the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility? How do you build the biggest physics experiment ever constructed in the United States? With a lot of help from interna...

Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old-school devices.

At a university hospital in the Netherlands, 17 students have a tropical parasitic disease.

A driverless car is making its way through a winding neighborhood street, about to make a sharp turn onto a road where a child's ball has just rolled. Although no person in the car can see that ball, the car stops to avo...

Tech titans are eager to reimagine how we will travel in the coming decades, but whose vision will win out? Last week Elon Musk and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi got in a back-and-forth on Twitter over whether flying cars w...

JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of near-instant visual art.

A strange plant that needs no sunlight and sucks on underground fungi for nutrients has turned up in Borneo, Malaysia, 151 years after the last time a scientist found it.

Rare remains show a primitive shrimp-like creature apparently caring for four juveniles - the oldest example of parental care in the fossil record

Rare remains show a primitive shrimp-like creature apparently caring for four juveniles - the oldest example of parental care in the fossil record

Physicians have long used CT scans to get 3-D imagery of the inner workings of the human body. Now, physicists are working toward getting their first CT scans of the inner workings of the nucleus. A measurement of quarks...

Earth's xenon is missing. But a new experiment suggests it might have been right under our feet all along.

Why does this toad have no face?

Tiny voids in rock are the exhalations of ancient microbes.

A new military program aims to develop treatments that slow down the body's biochemical reactions, to buy time for battlefield injuries.

More than 70 years ago, during World War II, a U.S. pilot was shot down as he was flying over the Pacific. Over the decades, sand and sea life at the bottom of the ocean covered the wreckage, further obscuring it from vi...

People at Boston Children's Hospital are taking tours of their own digestive tracts. Their doctor can point out anomalies and what they'll do to fix them

When science is done by TV press release, it is science that usually comes off worst - just ask a geneticist studying skin colour

About 4 percent of the people on Earth experience a mysterious phenomenon called synesthesia.