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Carbon fiber adds lightweight strength to sporting goods like bicycles and tennis rackets, and that same application of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) has been no more popular than in the aerospace industry, where every gram…

Revealing a colorful world filled with coconut-shaped sponges, dandelion-like worms, pink algae and spidery starfish, an underwater robot has captured a rare glimpse beneath the Antarctic sea ice. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD)…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a method to automatically design soft actuators based on the desired…

Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in fact, a region called NGC 6357 where radiation from hot, young stars is energizing the cooler gas in the cloud that surrounds…

Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the details of his ambitious year-long project to build his own 'Home AI'. Dubbed Jarvis, the system is basically an advanced Smart Home, letting you give voice and text commands to any device in the house. The…

Astronomer J. Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas at Austin thinks that Betelgeuse, the bright red star marking the shoulder of Orion, the hunter, may have had a past that is more interesting than meets the eye. Working with an…

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…