Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation."
Engineers at a company co-founded by a University of Texas at Dallas professor have identified a material that can reduce the pollution produced by vehicles that run on diesel fuel.
Scientists, using a unique optical trapping system that provides ensembles of ultracold atoms, have recorded the first direct observations of distinctly quantum optical effects.
A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Emory University has uncovered fundamental details about the hexamer structures that make up the tiniest droplets of water.
An international group of more than 30 researchers recently gave a score to every coastal nation on their contribution to the health of the world’s oceans....
The University of New England has received the largest research award in its history, with a $10 million award announced today by the National Institutes of Health.
NASA has announced the selection of 10 research efforts from the agency's inaugural Space Technology Research Opportunities for Early Career Faculty solicitation.
The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) gratefully announces that Beckman Coulter Life Sciences made an unrestricted contribution of $20,000 to the SLAS Endowment Fund.
Progress toward developing an alternative to organ transplantations in which doctors could actually grow a new heart or liver for a patient is among the topics in the 2012 premier of a popular video series from the American Chemical Society.