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A new process for creating flexible supercapacitors that can store more energy and be recharged more than 30,000 times without degrading has been developed by a team of UCF scientists. The novel method from the University of Central…

Across the United States, hundreds of local police departments have collectively spent about $4.75m on software tools that can monitor the locations of activists at protests or social media hashtags used by suspects, according to new…

Ever since the first stars appeared about one hundered million years after the big bang, stars and star formation processes have lit up the cosmos. When the universe was about three billion years old, star formation activity peaked at rates…

A giant valley discovered on the planet Mercury makes the Grand Canyon look tiny by comparison. Located by scientists at the University of Maryland, the Smithsonian Institution, the German Institute of Planetary Research and Moscow State…

Biometrics are a convenient form of security—though it's perhaps not as safe as you'd think. In their rush to do away with problematic passwords, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies are nudging consumers to use their own…

Author: Daisy Stapley-Bunten According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 40 million Americans suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders, and an additional 20 million report sleeping problems occasionally. Sleep…

Next gen solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they're relatively inexpensive and flexible enough to be applied just about anywhere. Researchers are working to dramatically increase the…

A machine that sends messages using common chemicals has been built by researchers. Among many potential applications, this system could relay secret messages or allow tiny devices to communicate inside the human body. Nearing the…

Now the seventh leading cause of death, diabetes is a growing epidemic in the United States and the condition plagues more than an estimated 29 million Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and that number…

In December 2015, the large cyclone that crossed the Arctic brought so much heat and humidity to this otherwise frigid and dry environment that it thinned and shrunk the sea ice cover during a time of the year when the ice should have been…