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To make a key discovery that could help make solar cells more efficient, a University of California, Riverside Assistant Professor has combined photosynthesis and physics. The findings were recently published in the journal Nano Letters.…

Science fiction as we know it would not exist without Hugo Gernsback. He coined the term 'science fiction' as the editor and publisher of Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted to the burgeoning genre, which he launched in 1926. The…

Ever since its discovery by the NASA New Horizons team in 2015, Pluto's 'icy heart', a bright, two-lobed feature on its surface has attracted researchers. Of particular interest is the heart's western lobe, informally named Sputnik…

An update to the timelapse feature of Google Earth's satellite imagery app has been released, and it’s a great way to see the rapid pace of urban development and public infrastructure projects like the San Francisco Bay Bridge. It’s a cool…

Satellite tags have long been used by scientists to track blue whales along the West Coast, learning how the largest animals on the planet find enough small krill to feed on to support their enormous size. Now researchers from NOAA…

Biologist Duncan Irschick helped create Geckskin, a super-adhesive that mimics the mechanics of gecko feet, a few years ago. In January, he developed the Beastcam, a portable camera array that can snap high-resolution, full-color 3D images…

About 4.6 billion years ago, a cloud of gas and dust that eventually formed our solar system was disturbed. The ensuing gravitational collapse formed the proto-Sun with a surrounding disc where the planets were born. A supernova - a star…

Brain imaging exams performed on high school football players after just one season revealed changes in both the gray and white matter that correlated with exposure to head impacts, according to a new study that will be presented today at…