Study links selfies, happiness
For a recent “positive computing” study by informatics researchers at UCI, subjects were asked to smile and snap a selfie with their smartphone every...
ALMA spots possible formation site of icy giant planet
ALMA image of the disk around the young star TW Hydrae. Several gaps are clearly depicted. Researchers found that the size of the dust...
Gaia’s billion-star map hints at treasures to come
An all-sky view of stars in our Galaxy – the Milky Way – and neighbouring galaxies, based on the first year of observations from...
Visualizing the Warmest August in 136 Years
NASA Earth Observatory chart by Joshua Stevens, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
August 2016 was the warmest August in...
Mapping our galaxy: The Milky Way revealed
By identifying stars from smaller galaxies long ago swallowed up by our own, Gaia will help scientists better understand the Milky Way's origin and...
Researchers prototype system for reading closed books
MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.Credit: Courtesy of Barmak Heshmat
MIT researchers and their colleagues are...
The sharing economy’s effect on business
Collaborative consumption is an expanding economic force in our country and globally, with consumers sharing everything from cars, bicycles and even agricultural equipment. It...
Lightweight, wearable tech efficiently converts body heat to electricity
Researchers have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics. The tech can be...
Link between walk, aggression discovered
Liam Satchell with a participant.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth
The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new...
Researchers Build World’s Largest Database of Crystal Surfaces and Shapes
Wulff shapes of the elements lithium, tin and hafnium taken from Crystalium. Image courtesy of the Materials Virtual Lab at UC San Diego
Nanoengineers at...
New technique generates human neural stem cells for tissue engineering, 3D brain models
This image show neuromuscular tissue engineering: hiNSCs (red) grown in co-culture with skeletal muscle (green), with cell nuclei visualized by blue DAPI staining.Credit: Dana...
