As the microchip industry celebrates the 50th anniversary of chipmaker Intel's founding, engineers and researchers call…
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New research discovered how people use emoji to express their concern and support during tragedies and disasters.
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In this professor's class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by talking, drawing pictures,…
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Novichok are a set of molecules that are some of the most deadly nerve agents ever developed. They are almost impossible…
President Trump's global trade wars may indeed drive manufacturing back to the U.S. – just not in the way he predicted.
A detector buried under more than a mile of ice in Antarctica has detected a high-energy subatomic neutrino and traced it…
Autonomous cars need to learn how to drive just like people do: with real-world practice on public roads. It's key to…
Sea turtles contend with a contagious disease that causes debilitating tumors. Genetic analysis is helping researchers figure…
Big technology firms are becoming known for mistreating workers, customers and society as a whole. Is an economic powerhouse…
New tools to help people use their smartphones in less detrimental ways are a good start, but could be even better at protecting…
An AC/DC-loving biologist tests the band's 1980 assertion that "rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution."…
A new type of antibiotic uses DNA to fight a common deadly microbe, _Clostridium difficile_. These new drugs are inexpensive…
Robotic milkers, video cameras and even sensors hidden inside the body will help this dairy farm figure out how to get the…
Everybody does it, but why? Scientists aren't really sure if exhaustion, stress or some other social factor is at the…
How did civilization emerge from small groups of hunter-gatherers? Some archaeologists focus on cooperation as the vital…
An astronomer suggests an idea to piggyback on the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot project that aims to send nano spacecraft…
It's annoying when your bus route gets off schedule or when buses bunch together. Why has it taken engineers so long…