The carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulb experiments generated the precise amount of heat needed to produce ...

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with integrated artificial intelligence that automatically diagnoses malaria in blood ...

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with ...

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the groundbreaking work of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch scientist ...

Precise measurements, not just imagination, drive scientific breakthroughs. From Galileo's telescope revealing Jupiter's moons to LIGO detecting gravitational waves, unblinking instruments ...

According to Edward Hæggström, founder and CEO of the University of Helsinki spinout Nanoform, real breakthroughs emerge from mistakes and over time ...

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated every year on February 11, highlights the critical role women ...

When 300 journalists lose their jobs at a once-great paper (as it announced on Wednesday), democracy gets darker.

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Young scientists and problem solvers of tomorrow showcased their innovations at the annual North Idaho Regional Invent Idaho ...

The concept of the modern restaurant emerged in Paris in the 18th century, and its original bourgeois beginnings eventually ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...