A new study suggests that something as simple as adding eyes to a humanoid robot can dramatically change how people perceive it. Researchers from Tampere...

Overheating is one of the biggest problems facing modern electronics, from smartphones to powerful data centers. Now, researchers at Rice University have developed a new...

Scientists have found new evidence that Jupiter’s largest moons may have received the chemical building blocks of life at the moment they formed. The discovery...

Long before the first known writing systems appeared in ancient Mesopotamia, early humans were already carving mysterious symbols into tools, ornaments, and sculptures. A new...

A new study has raised concerns about how artificial intelligence chatbots may affect people living with mental illness. Researchers looked at electronic health records from...

In a laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists recently witnessed something remarkable: the birth of a cloud inside a...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass...

Researchers have developed a new type of solar power system that can produce both electricity and heat at the same time—an innovation that could...

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Astronomers believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe, yet no one...

Scientists working on the next generation of OLED technology have discovered that making these devices more efficient is not as simple as squeezing as...

A tiny, threatened marsupial not known to have inhabited South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula may exist as a relict population and still be clinging to...

Scientists at Harvard have developed a new way to produce extremely precise patterns of laser light on a tiny chip, a breakthrough that could...

New research may explain how “buckyballs”—complex carbon molecules with a soccer-ball-like structure—form in space. Carbon 60, or C60 for short, (the official name is Buckminsterfullerene)...

A new study from UCLA Health has found that living near areas where the pesticide chlorpyrifos was used for long periods may increase the...

In our everyday life, we are surrounded by objects that have properties enabling them to perform certain functions. Rigidity and softness enable an object to...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have created a powerful new microscope that allows them to watch the tiniest movements of atoms and...

A predator doesn’t need to have the quickest speed or reflexes to catch a bird. In a paper published in the journal Current Biology, researchers...