As China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional stoves persists

Old habits are hard to break. A new study of replacement of traditional wood and coal…

Artificial cells act more like the real thing

Protocells — artificial cells — that are active and mimic living cells by moving independently and…

'Buildings' in human bone may hold key to stronger 3D-printed lightweight structures

The discovery of how a ‘beam’ in human bone material handles a lifetime’s worth of wear…

Open source EEG visualization tool

Researchers have developed a free open source computer program that can be used to create visual…

Emotion-sensing robot launches to assist space station astronauts

An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after…

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission explains Asteroid Bennu's mysterious particle events

Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s science…

Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion

Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion, and this information transfer is at least…

Mobile devices blur work and personal privacy raising cyber risks

Organizations aren’t moving quickly enough on cyber security threats linked to the drive toward using personal…

Dull teeth, long skulls, specialized bites evolved in unrelated plant-eating dinosaurs

Herbivorous dinosaurs evolved many times during the 180 million-year Mesozoic era, and while they didn’t all…

Bats may benefit from wildfire

Bats face many threats — from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such as…