Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside computer chips for the first time. Using an advanced electron microscopy method, ...

More than 10,000 Americans are waiting for a liver transplant. Many more never make the list, because they are too sick to ...

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

New research into why lithium-ion batteries tend to lose power over cycles of charge and discharge could help unlock the next ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eats steak for breakfast, and has been accused by family members of blending up mice and chickens to feed his hawks and cutting off a dead whale’s head to bring it home. But he ...

For more than a decade, Evan Economo 's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers ...

Published today in Science, the discovery marks the creation and observation of the first molecule with a half-Möbius electronic topology.

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the ...

Before CMOS sensors, digital cameras used charge-coupled devices or CCD sensors. This classic sensor design gathers light from the pixels and sends it to an amplifier in order to convert energy from ...

Champaign Central physics teacher Darren Plattner will retire at the end of the year after 33 years at the school.