A new device can overcome challenges like bad weather to deliver more secure, reliable communications. This could aid military communications in chall...

A new design for solar cells that uses inexpensive, commonly available materials could rival and even outperform conventional cells made of silicon. #...

In recent years the mushrooming power, functionality and ubiquity of computers and the Internet have outstripped early forecasts about technology’s ra...

After some serious number crunching, a researcher says that he has come up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine: a Traversable Acausal ...

By determining the age and hafnium isotope composition of zircons, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown that a population of these...

Telling humans apart and following them as they move in their surrounding environment could be two highly valuable skills for service robots. In fact,...

Hydrogen gas and methanol for fuel cells, or as raw materials for the chemicals industry, for example, could be produced more sustainably using sunlig...

Bioengineers and mathematicians have invented the first-ever 'armored' emulsions. The armor comes in the form of tiny soft U-shaped cups, about a half...

A team of researchers for the first time has found a correlation between the levels of bacteria and fungi in the gastrointestinal tract of children an...

We are increasingly using more smart devices like smartphones, smart speakers, and wearable health and wellness sensors in our homes, offices, and pub...

The Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics is retelling the story of life. Center Director Tom Gilbert believes in the interaction between genes and mic...

We were used to consuming architecture—both near to home and far away—with ease. But this year, our travel wings severed, heritage sites found themsel...

Cornell University researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable ''skin'' that detect...