science
Engineers develop flexible lithium battery for wearable electronics
The rapid development of flexible and wearable electronics is giving rise to an exciting range of applications, from smart watches and flexible displays--such as...
A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA
If you had to copy billions of letters from one sheet of paper to another, you'd probably make a few mistakes. So it might...
Reconstructing an ancient lethal weapon
Archaeologists are a little like forensic investigators: They scour the remains of past societies, looking for clues in pottery, tools and bones about how...
Research gives optical switches the ‘contrast’ of electronic transistors
Current computer systems represent bits of information, the 1's and 0's of binary code, with electricity. Circuit elements, such as transistors, operate on these...
Most of last 11,000 years cooler than past decade in North...
University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent...
Dinosaur Age Meets the Space Age
A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million...
‘Anxiety cells’ identified in the brain’s hippocampus
Do your palms sweat when you walk down a poorly lit street at night? That feeling may be traced to the firing of newly...
Glory from gloom
The Lupus 3 star forming region lies within the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), only 600 light-years away from Earth. It is part of...
Study of brain pacemaker shows promise in slowing decline of Alzheimer’s
While most treatments for Alzheimer's disease focus on improving memory, researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center conducted a study aimed at...
A crystal method
From Mother Nature to our must-have devices, we're surrounded by crystals. Those courtesy of the former, such as ice and snow, can form spontaneously...
This is your brain – this is your brain outdoors
The brain acts much differently when we're outdoors compared to when we're inside the lab, a new study has found.
"It happens when we're doing...
