The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invest over $1 billion each year into biomedical development efforts by small businesses across the country, and has now created an interactive mapping tool to help people to understand the impact of that funding.
Renowned physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the Higgs boson, once remarked that he could not get a job in modern academia because he wouldn’t be considered productive enough. After all, it took 48 years for the existence of the Higgs boson to be accepted by the scientific community.
A new method being pioneered by nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory and an international team promises to help scientists studying the origin of particles found on meteorites to determine whether they came from novas or supernovas.
After a decade of trying to hit a moving target 240,000 miles away and the size of a small book with a laser, NASA and French scientists recently made a shot that promises to help them understand everything from the composition of the moon to the evolution of the solar system.
A development from the Los Alamos National Laboratory promises to provide new insights into what occurs at the quantum level and may have further applications in ultrasensitive rotational measurements and quantum computing.
A new screen that gets brighter from environmental light could soon be in the works due to research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) at the University of Central Florida.
A University of Colorado Denver team of researchers have discovered a new way to form liquid crystal elastomers into material that has the potential to match the properties of tissues such as cartilage.
Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have made a breakthrough in understanding Alzheimer’s, involving a molecular pathway for which there are already medicines approved by the Food and Drug Administration that can suppress it.
Stanford University researchers have demonstrated the ability of their engineered, artificial synapsis to communicate with living cells, a potential step in creating computers that can interface directly with the human brain.