University of Chicago. A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry. “I’m a fairly sober guy. People didn’t know what to [...]

  By Alton Parrish. First results from the analysis of eight ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanets suggest that winds and clouds play an important role in the atmospheric make up of these exotic planets. Catherine Huitson of the University [...]

  By Alton Parrish. A new type of light wave extends the possibilities in biology, physics and nanotechnology Light can now be used to achieve ever better control of microparticles and nanoparticles. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute [...]

  Posted by Alton Parrish. Computer vision algorithms that enable Samsung’s latest humanoid robot, Roboray, to build real-time 3D visual maps to move around more efficiently have been developed by researchers from the University of [...]

    By Alton Parrish.   Physicist Joseph Formaggio seeks new ways to detect and measure the elusive particles. Every second, trillions of particles called neutrinos pass through your body. These particles have a mass so tiny [...]

  By University of North Carolina. North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a controlled environment. The [...]

By DOE U.S. Department of Energy. Materials scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have found an accurate way to explain the magnetic properties of a compound that has mystified the scientific community for [...]

By Alton Parrish. Two teams of scientists, working independently on two particle accelerators, in  China and Japan, have detected what appears to be a subatomic particle with four quarks, the previously unseen particles is named is Zc (3900), [...]

      By Audrey Neuman. Abakan Inc. (OTCQB: ABKI), an emerging leader in the advanced coatings and metal formulations markets, reports its subsidiary Powdermet has secured several significant partnerships with corporate, government [...]

  By Michael Bernstein.  New evidence from research suggests that infants fed formula, rather than breast milk, experience metabolic stress that could play a part in the long-recognized link between formula-feeding and an increased risk [...]

  By Alton Parrish. When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory. At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and found a way to apply [...]

By Alton Parrish. Using revolutionary new techniques, a team led by Carnegie’s Malcolm Guthrie has made a striking discovery about how ice behaves under pressure, changing ideas that date back almost 50 years. Their findings could alter [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Stanford scientists have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan earthquake that indicated it would cause a large tsunami. The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early warning system [...]

    By Alton Parrish.   Surprisingly large amounts of discarded trash end up in the ocean. Plastic bags, aluminum cans, and fishing debris not only clutter our beaches, but accumulate in open-ocean areas such as the “Great [...]

By Alton Parrish. Bed bugs now need to watch their step. Researchers at Stony Brook University have developed a safe, non-chemical resource that literally stops bed bugs in their tracks. This innovative new technology acts as a man-made [...]

  By Alton Parrish. A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was about [...]

    By Alton Parrish. New research published by an international team of psychologists has shown that people can suppress incriminating memories and thereby avoid detection in brain activity guilt detection tests. Credit: Wikipedia Such [...]

    By Alton Parrish. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling [...]

  By Alton Parrish. For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by [...]