Physicists design $100 handheld cosmic ray muon detector
Physicists at MIT have designed a pocket-sized cosmic ray muon detector to track these ghostly particles.
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers
At any given moment, Earth's...
How the Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks
This image shows a visual representation of one of the highest-energy neutrino detections superimposed on a view of the IceCube Lab at the South...
Quantum computing with molecules for a quicker search of unsorted databases
Upon execution of Grover's quantum algorithm, the terbium single-molecule transistor reads out unsorted databases.
Credit: KIT/Institut Néel
Scrapbooks or social networks are collections of mostly unsorted...
New motion sensors a major step toward low-cost, high-performance wearable technology
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering doctoral candidate Joshua DeGraff developed an advanced class of scalable motion sensors using silver ink electrodes and sheets of pure...
Fully integrated circuits printed directly onto fabric
This is a sample circuit printed on fabric.
Credit: Felice Torrisi
Researchers have successfully incorporated washable, stretchable and breathable electronic circuits into fabric, opening up new...
Hydrogen fuel from water by harnessing red and near-infrared regions of sunlight
This is an image of near-infrared-light-driven hydrogen evolution from water photo-driven by triruthenium photosensitizer.
Credit: Kyushu University
Hydrogen gas is a promising "green" fuel. The lightest...
Artificial photosynthesis gets big boost from new catalyst
Phil De Luna is one of the lead authors of a new paper published in Nature Chemistry that reports a low-cost, highly efficient catalyst...
Traditional Amazonian drug linked to improved sense of wellbeing, study suggests
Ayahuasca is a blend of the Psychotria Viridis bush and the stems of the Banisteriopsis Caapi vine.
Credit: Rafael Guimarães dos Santos
A psychedelic drug traditionally...
Smart people have better connected brains
The brain of more intelligent people is 'wired' differently from the brain of people with less intelligence, new research finds.
Credit: © Ulia Koltyrina /...
Lightning, with a chance of antimatter
A Kyoto University-based team has unraveled the mystery of gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes.
Credit: Kyoto University/Teruaki Enoto
A storm system approaches: the sky...
Dogs know that smile on your face
This is the experimental set-up used to test whether dogs can discriminate emotional expressions of human faces.
Credit: Anjuli Barber, Messerli Research Institute
Dogs can tell...
