Tiny light box opens new doors into the nanoworld

Researchers have discovered a completely new way of capturing, amplifying and linking light to matter at…

Big picture genetic scoring approach reliably predicts heart disease

Polygenic risk scores — genetic risk scores that take into account variations in a person’s entire…

Study examines why student-athletes access fewer academic supports, services

The NCAA is quick to point out that the word “student” comes first in the term…

Hypersonic matterwaves for ultrafast atomtronics

Atomtronics manipulates atoms much in the way that electronics manipulates electrons. It carries the promise of…

Deploying high-frequency radar in the Straits of Mackinac

As Great Lakes water levels rise to record heights, remotely monitoring currents and waves grows in…

Sex, lice and videotape

A few years ago, Scott Villa of Emory University had a problem. Then a graduate student…

Large boulders help shape huge canyons, researchers find

Anyone who enjoys whitewater rafting in places like the Colorado River owes a debt of gratitude…

Changes in pressure, more so than temperature, strongly influence how quickly liquids turn to gas

It’s a process so fundamental to everyday life—in everything from your morning coffeemaker to the huge…

New tool can pinpoint origins of the gut's bacteria

A UCLA-led research team has developed a faster and more accurate way to determine where the…

Why people will beat machines in recognizing speech for a long time

Imagine a world in which Siri always understands you, Google Translate works perfectly, and the two…