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Cancer occurrences are climbing, and skin cancer is no exception. Doctors carve out lumps of tissue for biopsy to determine if cancer is present, often causing painful wounds that heal slowly. The medical field is more aggressively testing,…

DNA can mutate. Researchers at the University of Surrey say this could be due to strange rules of quantum mechanics. Typically, DNA bases follow strict bonding rules based on shape. If the bonds change slightly, wrong bases can link—and…

Researchers created self-assembled, protein-based circuits that perform simple logic functions, proving it's possible to develop stable digital circuits that take advantage of an electron's properties at quantum scales. Molecular…

The alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finished, and it's ready to capture images with its four powerful onboard science instruments. Webb will now move to a final series of preparations, known as science instrument…

There’s been a constant demand for smaller, lighter, and cheaper cameras. But miniaturization is restricted by the lens system and the focusing distance required by refractive lenses. Researchers have developed a new image reconstruction…

Battery recharging is problematic. With each subsequent charge, batteries decay. An international, multi-agency/university study published in Science looks at what drives a battery's lifespan and how those factors change over time in…

MIT announced the launch of an MIT AI Hardware Program, joined by five inaugural companies to advance transformative AI technologies for the next decade. The academia and industry collaboration will define and develop translational…

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, the push has been to replace drivers eventually, letting the car completely take over. However, the upshot of a recent presentation is that instead of unhooking the driver, a more realistic prospect is…

As long as things stay the same, warehouse robots accurately pick and place for shipment without problems. However, change the process, and you must reprogram the robot and retrain the system. MIT researchers developed a training…

An Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched by NASA on 9 December 2021 is a space-based observatory. Developed with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), it has three identical telescopes, each with an imaging X-ray detector sensitive…

With most 3D printers, objects are built up layer by layer. But what if they didn’t have to be? Dan Congreve, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and former Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard…

Twenty-two leading zero-knowledge tech companies, foundations, and funds, joined by Advanced Micro Devices, announced a ZPrize contest offering $7 million in prizes. The goal is to accelerate zero-knowledge cryptography to enable the…

Okay, we know this, right? We're addicted to our smartphones, even knowing they cause muscle and back pain and turn us into the proverbial Jekyll and Hyde. Privat-Dozentin Dr. Julia Brailovskaia and her team are researching whether our…

Researchers at Georgia State designed an artificial vision device that incorporates a novel vertical stacking architecture. The result is greater depth of color recognition and scalability on a micro-level. The new development is published…

One of the great fears regarding robots is which jobs they will take over and when? And, for each of us, will our career be unscathed? In a recent study in Science Robotics, roboticists from EPFL and economists from the University of…