The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a five-year, up to $20 million grant to establish a Forensic Science Center of Excellence. Based at Iowa State University, it will include researchers from Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, Irvine; and the University of Virginia.

Researchers call for a fast and flexible regulatory response to the synthesis of morphine in genetically engineered yeast strains.

Invention captures wasted cell phone energy, feeds it back to battery.

Growing up in a household of artists and engineers, Peter Thelin was destined for a career in which artistry mattered. Only for him, art has come in the form of manipulating the shapes, sizes and qualities of optics. And now, as one of the few remaining practitioners of hand-polishing optics, Thelin is passing his artistry along to the next generation of optics specialists.

What if handheld tools know what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help inexperienced users to complete jobs that require skill? Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed and started studying a novel concept in robotics - intelligent handheld robots.

Officials from the city of Zhuhai, China, and the University of California, Davis, signed a memorandum of understanding on May 22 to establish the World Food Center-China.

U of T to train 150 grad students to fight forest fires, monitor crops, pipelines and railways with drones.

The nation’s approach to cyber security has much in common with medieval defense tactics, and that needs to change, says a cyber security expert at Missouri University of Science and Technology

A fruit fly starts buzzing around food at a picnic, so you wave your hand over the insect and shoo it away. But when the insect flees the scene, is it doing so because it is actually afraid? Using fruit flies to study the basic components of emotion, a new Caltech study reports that a fly's response to a shadowy overhead stimulus might be analogous to a negative emotional state such as fear—a finding that could one day help us understand the neural circuitry involved in human emotion. 

A family with Cornell University roots nearly 100 years old is helping the school's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences promote safe, high-quality foods well into the 21st century.

Can't resist finishing that burger? Researchers are developing a compound that could help control appetite.

DART co-inventor discusses the crazy things found on paper money since company first started looking at currency.