Mussels 'cooked alive' in balmy New Zealand ocean

Up to half a million mussels were effectively cooked in the wild in unusually balmy waters…

An early warning system for damage in composite materials

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a tool to…

Chemists use mass spectrometry tools to determine age of fingerprints

Fingerprints are telling us more and more about the people that left them behind. …

Count me out of counting seeds

One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Over and over and over. That’s…

Improving the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon-nanotube-based fibers

The Lyding Group recently developed a technique that can be used to build carbon-nanotube-based fibers by…

Biologists develop new defense in fight against crop infections

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has successfully tested a new strategy for…

A new world record for the conversion of solar energy to electricity using quantum dots

The development of next generation solar power technology that has potential to be used as a…

Ancient gut microbiomes shed light on human evolution

The microbiome of our ancestors might have been more important for human evolution than previously thought,…

ESO Telescope Sees Surface Of Dim Betelgeuse

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red…

NASA Invites Media to Rescheduled Final Test of Orion Motor for Crew Safety System

NASA Invites Media to Rescheduled Final Test of Orion Motor for Crew Safety System …