Research-funding agencies that require scientists to declare at the proposal stage how their projects will be “transformative” may actually be hindering discovery, according to a study by Or... Read more
Surveillance has become so ubiquitous that it appears likely that Russia was caught in the act conspiring to fix the 2016 United States presidential election, and at least one of his staffer... Read more
The EPA must act swiftly to evaluate the possible health risks of nanotechnology A decade ago the great worry about nanotechnology was that it could quite literally destroy the planet. As Su... Read more
Babies learn about the world by exploring how their bodies move in space, grabbing toys, pushing things off tables and by watching and imitating what adults are doing. But when roboticists w... Read more
Columns of workers penetrate the forest, furiously gathering as much food and supplies as they can. They are a massive army that living things know to avoid, and that few natural obstacles c... Read more
Researchers use engineered viruses to provide quantum-based enhancement of energy transport Nature has had billions of years to perfect photosynthesis, which directly or indirectly supports... Read more
A University of Leeds researcher is developing a new eye lens, made from the same material found in smartphone and TV screens, which could restore long-sightedness in older people. As people... Read more
What is this bird? Merlin says Blackburnian Warbler! In a breakthrough for computer vision and for bird watching, researchers and bird enthusiasts have enabled computers to achieve a task th... Read more
THE process by which academics check the work of their colleagues before it goes to print—peer review, in the argot—is nearly as old as scientific publishing itself. But like every human end... Read more
Analysis: It’s surprisingly easy to identify individuals from credit-card metadata In this week’s issue of the journal Science, MIT researchers report that just four fairly vague pieces of i... Read more
Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have used advanced photographic tools in an unmanned Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to make major advancements in estimating deep-se... Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) research has explored a variety of problems and approaches since its inception, but for the last 20 years or so has been focused on the problems surrounding the... Read more
Technology has changed rapidly over the last few years with touch feedback, known as haptics, being used in entertainment, rehabilitation and even surgical training. New research, using ultr... Read more
This could transform the computers of tomorrow New research published today in the journal Nature Communications, has demonstrated how glass can be manipulated to create a material that will... Read more
In 2005, in a landmark paper viewed well over a million times, John Ioannidis explained in PLOS Medicine why most published research findings are false. To coincide with PLOS Medicine’... Read more
