Predicting the limits of friction: Scientists look at properties of material
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Michael Chandross, left, and Nicolas Argibay show a computer simulation and an ultrahigh vacuum tribometer used in friction and wear...
Charting the skies of history
Scouring classical Japanese and Chinese literature -- together with tree ring data -- reveals new insights into auroras and other celestial phenomena of the...
Shadow of agas cloud detected in an ancient proto-supercluster
The distribution of galaxies in the proto-supercluster region 11.5 billion years ago (top left), and the Subaru Telescope Suprime-Cam image used in this work...
Photonics breakthough paving the way for improved wireless communication systems
Researchers David Marpaung, Benjamin Eggleton, Yang Liu and Amol Choudhary pointing at a thumbnail-size chip being evaluated in the broadband microwave testbed, inside the...
Born to love superheroes
Are we born to root for heroes? Researchers in Japan have evidence suggesting yes.
Credit: Kyoto University
We recognize justice before we can talk, reports a...
New Lens for Super-Resolution Imaging
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has developed a novel lens for super-resolution imaging which breaks resolution...
Potentially explosive methane gas mobile in groundwater, poses safety risk: U of G study
G360 researchers found methane gas could travel far in groundwater and act as a powerful greenhouse gas.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Guelph
Potentially explosive...
When industrial robots overheat: Continuous fitness check predicts potential machine faults
Nikolai Helwig (left) and Tizian Schneider, research assistants in the group led by Professor Andreas Schütze, are pictured testing the smart condition monitoring system...
Algorithms can exploit human perception in graph design
This picture represents scatterplot of pressure and temperature variables from the Hurricane Isabel dataset. The standard design (left) loses fidelity and requires manual adjustment,...
Monounsaturated fats help roundworms live longer, researchers say
Roundworms are a handy model for studying aging because of their relatively short life span.
Credit: Courtesy of the Brunet lab
Pudgy roundworms storing a particular...
10,000 years of genetic continuity in northwest North America, study reveals
Researchers are analyzing DNA from ancient individuals found in southeast Alaska, coastal British Columbia, Washington state and Montana. A new genetic analysis of some...
