Inspired by the game of Pachinko, new approach uses microscopic wells lined with electrodes to analyze cells for cervical cancer

Researchers offer a new tool to characterize shock waves with their experimentally confirmed model

Researchers are piecing together what happened to hundreds of cubes of uranium from a secretive and failed effort to build a nuclear reactor in Nazi Germany

Clustering-based computation may streamline the inspection of photovoltaic panels

Researchers have combined existing methods to optimize simulations and better reflect the physical process of protein folding

New research offers evidence that humans—and the rest of life on Earth—may have been able to form with the right combination of star dust and radiation

Researchers have developed a rapid, automatable, chip-based platform to analyze live cells

In addition to a fully detailed how-to video that the group produced for the public, the results of the work developing this do-it-yourself, handheld acoustic tractor beam will appear this week as an open access paper

Texas Tech University researchers demonstrate hexagonal boron nitride semiconductors as a cost-effective alternative for inspecting overseas cargo containers entering US ports

A group of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researchers in Germany report using 3-D direct laser writing based on two-photon polymerization as a tool to fabricate custom-made probes for atomic force microscopy (AFM).

Researchers in China report that air plasma can be used to kill biofilms found on the surfaces of perishable fruits and foods—significantly extending their shelf life, and reducing the world’s “food waste” problem as well

Researchers propose a new way to improve the beam quality in laser wakefield accelerators, which are small and inexpensive enough to bring high energy physics experiments to a wide variety of universities and labs

Researchers have developed a speedy, controllable way to get two or more ingredients into the same tiny capsule

With further development, the versatile device could test estrogen levels in bodily fluids like saliva or test for hormone contamination in waterways

Spiders' ability to adapt to their local environment and humidity levels by altering the viscosity of their "web glue" may mean next-gen smart adhesives