Wearable technology can help in at-home assessment of myoclonic jerks

A new study shows that wearable sensor technology can be used to reliably assess the occurrence…

Brain-inspired highly scalable neuromorphic hardware

Researchers fabricated a brain-inspired highly scalable neuromorphic hardware by co-integrating single transistor neurons and synapses. Using…

Bacteria navigate on surfaces using a 'sense of touch'

Researchers have characterized a mechanism that allows bacteria to direct their movement in response to the…

This quantum crystal could be a new dark matter sensor

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or “entangled,” the…

Leaping squirrels! Parkour is one of their many feats of agility

Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to…

Corn's genetic diversity on display in new genome study

The newly assembled genomes of 26 different genetic lines of corn illustrate the crop’s rich genetic…

ICYMI – People in Underserved Communities Innovate Every Day, and Science Should Harness that Ingenuity

ICYMI – People in Underserved Communities Innovate Every Day, and Science Should Harness that Ingenuity …

New process yields more, purer RNA at a fraction of the cost

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently unveiled their discovery of a new process for…

Far out: Why political parties go to extremes

The established view is that in a two-party representative democracy, political parties should target the average…

Helping India's smallholder farmers

To help smallholder farmers in India—farmers who own farms less than five acres in size—simply planting…