Researchers have found a material that can perform much better than silicon. The next step is finding practical and economic ways to make it.
With FabO, PhD student Dishita Turakhia wants to empower students to learn digital fabrication by making video game objects and characters come alive.
A new technique could improve the precision of atomic clocks and of quantum sensors for detecting dark matter or gravitational waves.
New results from researchers at MIT reveal an unexpected feature of atomic nuclei when a “magic” number of neutrons is reached.
Study suggests automatically starting benefits at the outset of a recession would remove uncertainty for workers.
Large study of existing research shows incremental improvement in patient outcomes and productivity, without big employment changes.
Studying speakers of 45 languages, neuroscientists found similar patterns of brain activation and language selectivity.
An international team of scientists has analyzed archive data for powerful cosmic explosions from the deaths of stars and found a new way to measure distances in the distant universe.
A study published July 19 in the journal eLife brings new hope for HIV treatments.
It’s hard to imagine life on Earth without mammals.
Replacing an entrenched method in scientific research is difficult, even when the method is problematic. Such is the case with shifting from research studies based on the null hypothesis to a more realistic method of estimation.
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have found that people may have a tendency to form friendships with individuals who have a similar body odor.
Of all the fungi that live in the human body, the most infamous is probably the yeast Candida.
When she was a student at Yale School of Medicine more than a decade ago, Dr. Mei Elansary ’12 conducted a project on the Indonesian island of Borneo.
Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process
For decades, studies have shown that children able to resist temptation—opting to wait for two marshmallows later rather than take one now—tend to do better on measures of health and success later in life.
Children hold stereotypical views that ‘brilliance’ is a male trait, and this belief strengthens as they grow up to the age of twelve, researchers from Singapore and the United States have reported.
UC San Diego researcher warns that economic growth is not possible in the long-term
Black adolescents who lived in poverty and were less optimistic about the future showed accelerated aging in their immune cells and were more likely to have elevated insulin resistance at ages 25-29, researchers found.
NYU Langone Researchers Link the Chemicals to Cancer, Thyroid Disease, Childhood Obesity & Other Medical Conditions