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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory loomed large for Marlyse Reeves from an early age. Growing up in Pasadena, California, in JPL’s backyard, Reeves developed a love of all things outer space, and the lab was a regular destination…

The world's largest digital survey of the visible Universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released. The data has been made available by the international Pan-STARRS project, which includes scientists from…

It would be a lot easier to expand our use of solar and wind energy if we had better ways to store the large quantities of electricity we’d need to cover gaps in the flow of that energy. Even in sunny Los Angeles, a typical house roofed…

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown they can differentiate a single hyperactive cancerous cell from a normal cell, by interfacing brain cells onto graphene, pointing the way to developing a simple, noninvasive…

Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) are key early indicators of metastasis, which is the process by which cancer cells move from one organ group in the body to another. Once cancer spreads, the prognosis is generally not good. So, early…

Sweat could be the next thing wearable devices sense to track your health, researchers say. A new microfluidic skin patch capable of collecting and analyzing sweat has survived tests that included a grueling 104km bike race. And the next…

HoloActive Touch from BMW will be one of the likely attention-grabbers at next month's CES show in Las Vegas. So what is it? This takes the form of a virtual touchscreen next to the steering wheel. It's an interface between the driver…

An ambitious group of engineers sees the shafts in Mineville as a new way to provide a steady flow of electricity in a growing market for renewable energy. They are pitching a plan to circulate some of the millions of gallons of…

Rather than release waste carbon dioxide into the atmosphere or bury it underground, graphene quantum dots may offer a simple way to recycle it, according to Rice University scientists. Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots (NGQDs) are an…

All eight spacecraft of its latest Earth science mission are in good shape, NASA has confirmed. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will provide scientists with advanced technology to see inside tropical storms and…

Get ready for a new kind of home companion robot. Gatebox. It is promoted as the world's virtual home robot with which you can spend your everyday life with your favorite characters. Shane McGlaun in SlashGear said the Gatebox device was…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world's smallest radio receiver - built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds. This tiny radio - whose building…

The golden ticket for successful solar cell technology is efficiency: the amount of sunlight a solar cell can convert to electricity. With perovskites—a particular type of crystal-structured materials—scientists have been able make solar…