The Milky Way’s Ancient Heart
This image, captured with the VISTA infrared survey telescope, as part of the Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO public survey, shows the...
Marconi inspires Rice University design for 1-terabit wireless
This silicon-germanium chip converts a digital trigger to a 5-picosecond pulse of radiation with a frequency spectrum exceeding 1 terahertz. The chip supports a...
For smartphone-dependent world, Samsung troubles hit hard
Yes, you heard that right. Samsung is asking owners of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to do something crazy: "power down and stop using...
Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought
An artist's illustration depicts the interior of a low-mass star. Such stars have different interior structures than our Sun, so they are not expected...
Trust fosters networking and knowledge sharing
Links in colours from yellow to red show increasing strength of preference between players (the circles), the three panels (left to right) are for...
Why naked mole rats feel no pain
This photograph shows a naked mole rat climbing over chili peppers. The naked mole rat is unable to feel pain from hot chili peppers,...
Achieving ultra-low friction without oil additives
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new process for treating metal surfaces that has the potential to...
Historic shrinking of Antarctic Ice Sheet linked to CO2 spike
Fossilized leaves hold evidence of a sharp increase in carbon dioxide levels as the Antarctic ice sheet began to shrink 23 million years ago,...
A new spin on nanofibers
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard...
Brain training may help keep seniors on the road
Driving cessation has huge ramifications for seniors. It signals an end to freedom, acting as a concrete acknowledgement that you're declining. Image Credit: Flickr/Steve...
Decoding of tarsier genome reveals ties to humans
Tarsiers – tiny, carnivorous primates – are our distant cousins, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who sequenced...
