Science & Technology

A new tissue-clearing method simplifies and speeds up the process to render tissue optically transparent, enabling 3D imaging of entire, intact tissues or organs.

Elementary school teachers raised concerns about cyberbullying, students accessing inappropriate content online and other issues.

The strong winds and torrential rains that accompany a cyclone do tremendous damage to ecosystems, and this damage can make them more prone to future wildfires. As intense cyclones are projected to become more frequent worldwide, a team of researchers …

Researchers examined whether the general public understands the medical jargon that physicians typically use in their introductions to patients. They found speciality names and seniority titles are sources of misunderstanding.

Researchers have developed an approach to accurately record and fully track the biodegradation of plastics in soils.

‘Plant blindness’ is caused by a lack of exposure to nature and could be cured by close contact through activities such as wild food foraging, a study shows.

Each year, 700,000 people die due to antibiotic resistance. A growing global population unfortunately generates a growing resistance to established antibiotic treatments — a threat that has been met with insufficient funding and dwindling inspiration,…

Even months after critical illness for sepsis, children are at risk for new or worsening medical conditions, a study suggests.

New research shows that a cold equatorial ocean current — which provides a buffer for the Galápagos Islands against an otherwise warming Pacific Ocean — has been getting stronger for decades. It’s encouraging news, and another reason to safeguard thi…

The metal-carbon dioxide battery is a promising and environmentally friendly technology, but its energy efficiency is limited. Recently, a research team has discovered an innovative way to overcome this problem by introducing an unconventional phase na…

Astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere — barium. They were surprised to discover barium at high altitudes in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b — two exoplanets, planet…

Men and women in the UK are dying faster than predicted, a new report has found. The findings, compiled across 21 high-income countries over a period of 50 years, show that, following decades of improvement in life expectancy and in the probability of …

An odor machine, so-called olfactometer, makes it possible to smell in VR environments. First up is a ‘wine tasting game’ where the user smells wine in a virtual wine cellar and gets points if the guess on aromas in each wine is correct. The new techno…

A new study has found that even in remote, rarely visited national parks, the presence of even just a few humans impacts the activity of wildlife that live there. Nearly any level of human activity in a protected area like a national park can alter the…

Women are thought to fare better in verbal abilities, especially in verbal-fluency and verbal-memory tasks. However, the last meta-analysis on sex/gender differences in verbal fluency dates from 1988. Although verbal memory has only recently been inves…

Astronomers have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the alert when a massive star is about to end its life in a supernova explosion.

Taking advantage of a phenomenon known as emergent behavior, engineers have designed simple microparticles that can collectively generate complex behavior. Working together, the microparticles can generate a beating clock that oscillates at a very low …