'Lab in your phone' lets you play the scientific life

The scientist inside your phone is having a stressful day. Trying to finish a research paper…

NASA, New Zealand Partner to Collect Climate Data from Commercial Aircraft

NASA is partnering with the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand Space…

Modern technology reveals old secrets about the great, white Maya road

Did a powerful queen of Cobá, one of the greatest cities of the ancient Maya world,…

Ancient DNA from Sardinia reveals 6,000 years of genetic history

A new study of the genetic history of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island off the western coast…

Technology in higher education: learning with it instead of from it

Technology has shifted the way that professors teach students in higher education. For example, by uploading…

A simple retrofit transforms electron microscopes into high-speed atom-scale cameras

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a…

Camera trap study captures Sumatran tigers, clouded leopards, other rare beasts

Scientists deployed motion-sensitive camera traps across a 50-square-mile swath of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in…

Researchers ID protein function in parasites that cause sometimes fatal diseases

In the quest to develop more effective treatments for parasitic diseases like African sleeping sickness, Chagas…

A simple retrofit transforms electron microscopes into high-speed atom-scale cameras

Researchers have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron microscope — a long-standing scientific workhorse…

Researchers ID protein function in parasites that cause sometimes fatal diseases

In the quest to develop more effective treatments for parasitic diseases, scientists look for weaknesses in…