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(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) With an estimated daily fuel demand of more than 5 million barrels per day, the global aviation sector is incredibly energy-intensive and almost entirely reliant on petroleum-b...

A new biomarker for fibromyalgia has been identified in blood samples taken from patients suffering from the condition.

Low-frequency optogentic stimulation of the visual region of the brain impairs an animal's ability to make fine sensory discriminations.

Integrating a myoelectric computer interface device with a customized video game helps stroke survivors to improve mobility and arm function.

Google announces a streaming service that will allow people to play video games in 4K in their browser -- provided they have a good internet connection

NASA's OSIRIS-REx has found that Bennu is an active asteroid and is also covered in large rocks that will make grabbing a sample more difficult

The size of a small city, the target asteroid is imposing. The cracks and craters on its surface reflect years of wear in the extreme and dangerous environment of deep space. This mosaic image of the asteroid Bennu is co...

The first results from Japan's Hayabusa-2 mission show that the asteroid Ryugu is surprisingly dry, which may have implications for how life began on Earth

Can tokamak fusion facilities, the most widely used devices for harvesting on Earth the fusion reactions that power the sun and stars, be developed more quickly to produce safe, clean, and virtually limitless energy for ...

Here's why vast swaths of Nebraska, Missouri, and other Midwestern states are drowning.

A study that tracked 58 hen harriers over a decade found that most of the birds disappeared without a trace - and this was more likely to happen on grouse moors

High-Tc superconductors have become a hot topic in physics since superconducting mercury was first reported more than a century ago. Dense hydrogen was predicted to metalize and become a superconductor at high pressure a...

For connecting wind parks, for DC supply on ships, or for lightweight and compact high-current cabling in future electric airplanes: scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a versatile superc...

As over-hyped as artificial intelligence is--everyone's talking about it, few fully understand it, it might leave us all unemployed but also solve all the world's problems--its list of accomplishments is growing. AI can ...

The last thing Dr. Li-Huei Tsai expected to help her Alzheimer's mice was a disco cage. Three years back, in a strobe of insight, her team decided to stick mice engineered with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's dis...

A new computer program that spots when information in a quantum computer is escaping to unwanted states will give users of this promising technology the ability to check its reliability without any technical knowledge fo...

When you deal with things at the quantum scale, where things are very small, the world is quite fuzzy and bizarre in comparison to our everyday experiences.

Researchers at Caltech have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the objects' surfaces.

A team of researchers from several institutions in India and Japan has found that it is possible to use a muon detector to measure electric potential in thunderstorms. The paper is published in the journal Physical Revie...

The first women-only spacewalk is a cause for celebration, but we are still a long way from achieving equality in our space programmes

Heavy elements are produced during stellar explosion or on the surfaces of neutron stars through the capture of hydrogen nuclei (protons). This occurs at extremely high temperatures, but at relatively low energies. An in...

Researchers at the University of Sydney, Swinburne University of Technology and the Australian National University have collaborated to develop a solar absorbing, ultrathin film with unique properties that has great pote...