How Did Life Become Complex, And Could It Happen Beyond Earth?
When astrobiologists contemplate life on nearby planets or moons, they often suggest such life would be simple. Instead of there being some kind of multicellular organism on, say, Jupiter's moon Eur ... more
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Researchers develop clothes that can monitor and transmit biomedical info on wearers
Researchers at Universite Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers have developed smart textiles able to monitor and transmit wearers' biomedical inform ... more
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NASA's ORCA, AirHARP Projects Paved Way for PACE to Reach Space
NASA study reveals comprehensive global river water accounting
Asterra debuts groundbreaking L-band SAR API for commercial use
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Unusual electronic state found in new class of unconventional superconductors
A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia Engineering, Columbia Physics and Kyoto University has discovered an unusual form of electron ... more
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High photosensitivity 2-D-few-layered molybdenum diselenide phototransistors
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are now attracting a lot of interest due to their unique optoelectronic properties at atomic thicknesses. Among them, graphene has been mostly investigated, bu ... more
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Engineer Applies Robot Control Theory to Improve Prosthetic Legs
A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the wearer's environment and help amputees walk. In research available ... more
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Computers that teach by example
Computers are good at identifying patterns in huge data sets. Humans, by contrast, are good at inferring patterns from just a few examples. In a paper appearing at the Neural Information Processing ... more
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Researchers report possible dark matter signal
Researchers with the European Space Agency say they've detected a strange spike in X-rays coming from two cosmic locations - the Andromeda Galaxy and the Perseus Cluster. The astronomers think the strange emissions could be the signal of dark matter. If confirmed, it would be first direct evidence of dark matter. ... more
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