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By identifying stars from smaller galaxies long ago swallowed up by our own, Gaia will help scientists better understand the Milky Way's origin and...

MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.Credit: Courtesy of Barmak Heshmat MIT researchers and their colleagues are...

Collaborative consumption is an expanding economic force in our country and globally, with consumers sharing everything from cars, bicycles and even agricultural equipment. It...

Researchers have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics. The tech can be...

Liam Satchell with a participant.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new...

Wulff shapes of the elements lithium, tin and hafnium taken from Crystalium. Image courtesy of the Materials Virtual Lab at UC San Diego Nanoengineers at...

This image show neuromuscular tissue engineering: hiNSCs (red) grown in co-culture with skeletal muscle (green), with cell nuclei visualized by blue DAPI staining.Credit: Dana...

A UC Santa Barbara researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural...

Eggs can be 'tricked' into developing into an embryo without fertilisation, but the resulting embryos, called parthenogenotes, die after a few days because key...

A piece of fabric was woven with special strands of material that harvest electricity from the sun and motion. Credit: Georgia Tech Fabrics that can...

Michigan State University psychology professor Zach Hambrick, left, and graduate student Alexander Burgoyne discuss their findings that chess skill is related to intelligence.Credit: Michigan...