Duke Engineers Use Brute Force Computing to Find In the search for cheaper materials that mimic their purer, more expensive counterparts, researchers are abandoning hunches and intuition for... Read more
The fish’s unique way of swimming could improve deep-sea vehicles’ agility and fuel efficiency Stingrays swim through water with such ease that researchers from the University at... Read more
Based on a penguin’s shoulder-and-wing system Back in 1991, Nature published a picture from the IMAX movie Antarctica, along with the caption: “Emperor penguins may be waddling j... Read more
By using an ordinary green laser pointer, the kind commonly found in offices and college lecture halls, an Israeli research team has developed a new and highly portable Raman spectrometer th... Read more
Could see a reduction in costs to society of 38 percent through a sharp cut in associated health-care and climate-change costs. Refrigerating coal-plant emissions would reduce levels of dang... Read more
Cosmic-ray tomography Musing on muons AMERICANS may no longer fret about being showered with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, but the idea that an atom bomb might enter their country in a... Read more
The idea of pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is a beguiling one. Could it ever become real? THOSE who worry about global warming have a simple answer to the problem. Simple in th... Read more
New finding could help circuits keep shrinking In 1959 physicist Richard Feynman issued a famed address at a meeting of the American Physical Society, a talk entitled “There... Read more