Pediatricians update digital media recommendations for kids
New guidelines announced by the American Academy of Pediatrics today say parents not only need to pay attention to the amount of time children...
Researchers discover ways to expand temperature stability range of solar cells
Despite the potential for powering the world with energy from the sun—the most abundant source of renewable energy - only about 1 percent of...
Physicists develop analytics to predict poll trends
As the countdown continues to the Presidential election, new analytical tools by physicists at The City College of New York promise a quicker and...
Major DDoS attack knocks Twitter, Reddit, Spotify offline
Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages on Friday as a US internet provider came under a cyber...
New record for fusion
The interior of the fusion experiment Alcator C-Mod at MIT recently broke the plasma pressure record for a magnetic fusion device. The interior of...
Mobile system finds your location without the ‘cloud’
Rice University’s CaPSuLe system could allow mobile users to quickly determine their location indoors without having to communicate with the cloud, networks or other...
Scientists link single gene to some cases of autism spectrum disorder
Findings could provide clues about other genes involved in autism
Scientists have linked mutations in a single gene to autism in people who have a...
Oldest known planet-forming disk discovered
An artist's conception of this unusual system.Credit: Courtesy of Jonathan Holden/Disk Detective
A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, joined...
CDC recommends only two HPV shots for younger adolescents
CDC today recommended that 11- to 12-year-olds receive two doses of HPV vaccine at least six months apart rather than the previously recommended three...
Non-metal catalyst splits hydrogen molecule
Hydrogen (H2) is an extremely simple molecule and yet a valuable raw material which as a result of the development of sophisticated catalysts is...
Researchers find new way to attack gastro bug
Electron micrograph of C. jejuni in chicken gut. Credit: Griffith University
A team at Griffith's Institute for Glycomics identified a unique sensory structure that is...
