Prosthetic innovation: 'It's like you have a hand again' – study

Today’s artificial limbs can look very natural, and now an innovative process makes prosthetic hands move…

NASA's Deep Space Antenna Upgrades to Affect Voyager Communications

The antenna enhancements will improve future spacecraft communications, but during the upgrades, Voyager 2…

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet

To go along with the stunning 1.8-billion-pixel image, a new video offers a sweeping…

Tropical forests' carbon sink is already rapidly weakening

The ability of the world’s tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according…

New insights into evolution: Why genes appear to move around

Scientists have proposed an addition to the theory of evolution that can explain how and why…

Biomaterial discovery enables 3D printing of tissue-like vascular structures

An international team of scientists have discovered a new material that can be 3D printed to…

Breastfeeding and risks of allergies and asthma

In an Acta Paediatrica study, exclusive breastfeeding for the first 3 months was linked with a…

Robot uses artificial intelligence and imaging to draw blood

Engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence and near-infrared and ultrasound…

New type of indoor solar cells for smart connected devices

In a future where most things in our everyday life are connected through the internet, devices…

A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics

Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson and colleagues in Taiwan and China report in Nature on making…