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For smartphone-dependent world, Samsung troubles hit hard

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Tarsiers – tiny, carnivorous primates – are our distant cousins, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who sequenced...

Typing while driving could be more safe with simple text entry...

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The study was implemented with a driving simulator. The researchers intended to find a solution in which the driver would need to look at...

New, gigantic, ancient armored fish discovered

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Fossil bones from the skull of Bothriolepis rex and a line drawing of the head viewed from above. The large, thick bones create an...