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A mechanical object has been cooled to a temperature lower than previously thought possible, below the so-called "quantum limit," by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The new NIST theory and…

Google's parent company, Alphabet, is scaling back its ambitions for Internet by drone. It has disbanded the team that had been developing the technology, according to the company. For years, companies like Facebook and Google have…

Thanks to rocks and soil collected by the Apollo 14 moonwalkers in 1971, it turns out the moon is older than many scientists suspected: a ripe 4.51 billion years old. A research team reported Wednesday that the moon formed within 60…

Nintendo is releasing more details on the upcoming Nintendo Switch later this week, but the first piece of official news has already dropped. The New York-based Nintendo store Twitter account announced that a “limited quantity” of preorders…

According to a report from The Las Vegas Sun, the city of Las Vegas will be home to a two-week autonomous shuttle trial. The shuttle is a small 12-person vehicle known as Arma, similar in appearance to Google’s original driverless car…

A wide variety of pigments to absorb different wavelengths of light are used by plants and other photosynthetic organisms. MIT researchers have now developed a theoretical model to predict the spectrum of light absorbed by aggregates of…

To improve the efficiency of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) by more than 30%, engineers at the University of California, Riverside have taken inspiration from biological evolution and the energy savings garnered by birds flying in…

Companies that manufacture valuable ingredients for chemicals like detergens or paint, aim to produce the ingredients in large quantities, sustainably, and at a low cost. That's what researchers from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for…

From art and science to culture and natural history, museums can be great teachers. They educate and inspire us. Still, display signs and audio guides can only convey so much. What if you could explore museums in a different way? With…

A network of satellites whizzing around Earth collecting mountains of data makes constant and wide-ranging access to accurate weather forecasts possible. Just one satellite, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's…

To demonstrate how a new force-sensing control scheme he designed was able to detect the contact and instantly stop the robot, Sami Haddadin once attached a knife to a robot manipulator and programmed it to impale his arm. Which it didn't.…

This delicate smudge in deep space is far more turbulent than it first appears. Known as IRAS 14348-1447 — a name derived in part from that of its discoverer, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS for short) — this celestial object…