Water fasts can help you lose weight, but you might gain it back quickly

Water fasts — where people consume nothing but water for several days — might help you…

Gravitational waves from colossal black holes found using 'cosmic clocks'

You can’t see or feel it, but everything around you — including your own body —…

Evaluating cybersecurity methods

Researchers created a generic framework that enables an engineer or scientist to evaluate the effectiveness of…

Dolphin ages, pod health revealed with drone photographs

Using unoccupied aerial system, or drone, photographs, researchers are now able to determine the age-structure of…

Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods

Imagine strapping on a virtual reality headset and ‘walking’ through a long-gone neighborhood in your city…

An unexpected doorway into the ear opens new possibilities for hearing restoration

Researchers have developed a new method to deliver drugs into the inner ear.  The discovery was…

NeuWS camera answers 'holy grail problem' in optical imaging

Engineers have demonstrated full-motion video camera technology that can ‘see’ through light-scattering media. The research could…

ALMA digs deeper into the mystery of planet formation

An international research team has observed disks around 19 protostars with a very high resolution to…

Mountains vulnerable to extreme rain from climate change

A new study finds that as rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the…

How urea may have been the gateway to life

Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This…