Science & Technology

Old-growth forests and managed forests with old-growth characteristics can provide relief from climate change for some bird species, research suggests.

The Cincinnati Art Museum turned to a scientist at the University of Cincinnati for help solving a mystery 1,300 years in the making. Together they examined whether decorative features on a Tang dynasty dancing horse were original to the sculpture or a…

We’re all capable of slowing down the effects of a warming Earth, and it could be as simple as how we stock our pantries.

Physicists have demonstrated a new magnetized state in a monolayer of tungsten ditelluride. This material of one-atom thickness has an insulating interior but a conducting edge, which has important implications for controlling electron flow in nanodevi…

A study reveals that the incidence of early onset cancers (those diagnosed before age 50), including cancers of the breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver, and pancreas among others, has dramatically increased around the world, with this drastic rise …

Abrahamic texts treat slithering as a special indignity visited on the wicked serpent, but evolution may draw a more continuous line through the motion of swimming microbes, wriggling worms, skittering spiders and walking horses. A new study found that…

Researchers have made a technological breakthrough and constructed a perovskite solar cell with the dual benefits of being both highly efficient and highly stable.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected American households in countless ways, but according to researchers, some of the most tangible shifts are taking place in the food system.

Noninvasive ventilation is possible in infants at limits of viability. But unlike in slightly older preterm infants, noninvasive ventilation did not show an advantage in infants of 22 weeks-0 days to 23 weeks-6 days gestational age, according to a new …

Engineering researchers have created new high-power electronic devices that are more energy efficient than previous technologies. The devices are made possible by a unique technique for ‘doping’ gallium nitride (GaN) in a controlled way.

A new study has found that older people with insomnia are at greater risk of developing memory decline and long-term cognitive impairment such as dementia.

A team of scientists has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots.

Some species of tardigrades, or water bears as the tiny aquatic creatures are also known, can survive in different environments often hostile or even fatal to most forms of life. For the first time, researchers describe a new mechanism that explains ho…

A research team has developed a high-resolution holographic endoscope system thinner than an injection needle for microscopic imaging inside a curved passage.

The survival of an ant colony depends on its members being able to distinguish their own nestmates from ants of a foreign — and possibly hostile — colony. This so-called nestmate recognition is based on scents emitted by a very thin layer of wax that…