Flatland light: Researchers create rewritable optical components for 2-D light waves

In 1884, a schoolmaster and theologian named Edwin Abbott wrote a novella called Flatland, which tells…

Horses blink less, twitch eyelids more when stressed

How can you tell when a horse is feeling stressed? It’s all in the eyes and…

Researchers model avalanches in two dimensions

There’s a structural avalanche waiting inside that box of Rice Krispies on the supermarket shelf. Cornell…

How human population came from our ability to cooperate

Humans may owe their place as Earth’s dominating species to their ability to share and cooperate…

Scientists should have sex and gender on the brain

Thinking about sex and gender would help scientists improve their research, a new article published today…

Quantitative biology opens trail to ecological exploration, evolutionary prediction

One of the best studied topics of molecular biology is bacterial chemotaxis-the movement of bacterial cells…

Researchers discover new toxin that impedes bacterial growth

An international research collaboration has discovered a new bacteria-killing toxin that shows promise of impacting superbug…

New measurement yields smaller proton radius

Using the first new method in half a century for measuring the size of the proton…

NASA-NOAA satellite finds super typhoon Halong finally weakening

Super Typhoon Halong has finally peaked in intensity and is now on a weakening trend. NASA-NOAA’s…

Newly formed tropical storm Nakri seen by NASA-NOAA satellite

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South China Sea and captured a visible image of…