Why do we need sleep?

Scientists have made a breakthrough in answering the age-old question: Why do we need sleep? According to a study in the US, sleeping act...

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New Science and Technology News

On-chip Fabs, latest connectomes, brain-like computing architecture, printable MEMS, single-lens depth perception, synthetic hamburgers, ...

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Researchers Develop New Amp to Study the Universe

The new amplifier consists of a superconducting material (niobium titanium nitride) coiled into a double spiral 16 millimeters in diameter...

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Organic solar cells

An organic solar cell or plastic solar cell is a type of polymer solar cell that uses organic electronics, a branch of electronics that d...

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Earth has its own Particle Accelerator

How Earth Accelerates Electrons to 99.9 Percent of Light Speed : As the Sun's churning surface lets loose a belch of white-hot flame,...

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What is The Cosmological constant?

Einstein first proposed the cosmological constant (not to be confused with the Hubble Constant) usually symbolized by the greek letter ...

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The latest scientific research 8th May 2013

Daily coverage of the latest scientific research 1. Graphene quantum dots may someday tell if it will rain on Mars Chemical engineers may...

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Floating Wind Turbines That Produce Power Even When There's No Wind

Critics of wind power keep coming back to the same old complaint: what happens when there’s no wind? A new design from researchers at M...

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Scientists create biggest family tree of human cells

In a paper published today by the prestigious journal, Nature Methods, biologists at the University of Luxembourg, Tampere University of...

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The Day in Science - Daily coverage of the latest scientific research

1. Electrical pulse treatment pokes holes in hard-to-treat tumors A new, minimally invasive treatment that tears microscopic holes in tum...

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The Magic and Science of Sulfur Hexaflouride

Although sulfur hexafluoride is a gas, it is about 5 times denser than air, meaning that its molecules are packed more tightly together, an...

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News Discovery: Bee Venom to Prevent HIV Infection

It is estimated that 34M people are living with an HIV/AIDS infection around the world, with nearly 3M infected newly with HIV each year...

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The amazing things we learned and discovered this week

Just a small sample of some of the amazing things we learned and discovered this week. Giant squid footage:  http://bit.ly/TTs5qF Large...

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The Flame Nebula

The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during wint...

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Georgia Tech scientists developing biology-inspired system to give robot eyes more human-like motion

Having difficulty getting your robot parts to work as planned? Turn to nature -- or better yet, look inside yourself. After all, where b...

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LHC reaches record collision rate at 4TeV per beam

Physicist Despina Hatzifotiadou inspects the wiring on the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (Image: CERN) In just 12 days ...

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Left Brain vs Right Brain

» Left Brain: I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am pra...

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Faster-than-light neutrino result reportedly a mistake caused by loose cable

Since September, scientists have been scratching their head over results that appear to show neutrinos traveling between Switzerland and...

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