Rare element to provide better material for high-speed electronics

Purdue researchers have discovered a new two-dimensional material, derived from the rare element tellurium, to make…

Climate Change May Lead to Bigger Atmospheric Rivers

A new NASA-led study shows the events are likely to intensify, but become slightly less frequent,…

Take a Virtual Trip to a Strange New World with NASA

Take a virtual trip to the imagined surfaces of planets beyond our solar system with NASA's…

Take a Virtual Trip to a Strange New World with NASA

Take a virtual trip to the imagined surfaces of planets beyond our solar system with NASA's…

Climate Change May Lead to Bigger Atmospheric Rivers

A new NASA-led study shows the events are likely to intensify, but become slightly less frequent,…

The secret to honing kids’ language and literacy

Researchers found that a child's ability to self-regulate is a critical element in childhood language and…

New computational tool could help optimize treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

Scientists have developed a novel computational approach that incorporates individual patients' brain activity to calculate optimal,…

When the dinosaurs died, so did forests — and tree-dwelling birds

Sixty-six million years ago, the world burned. An asteroid crashed to Earth with a force one…

Reconstructing Zika’s spread

The urgent threat from Zika virus, which dominated headlines in early 2016, has passed. But research…

Imminent extinction of northern white rhinoceros motivates genetic recovery efforts

Earlier this year, the last remaining male northern white rhinoceros (NWR) died in captivity, nearly cementing…