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This week, research was published showing that silk produced by transgenically-engineered silkworms exhibits the highly sought-after strength and elasticity of spider ... Read More »

Science fiction’s insect cyborgs may not be far off. Researchers have shown that an insect's internal chemicals can be converted to electricity, potentially ... Read More »

Someday, patients in need of neural stem cells may be able to get them from their own eyes. Researchers have identified central nervous system adult stem cells in a... Read More »

PPG Industries’ aerospace coatings group has introduced AEROCRON, the first commercial electrocoat-application primer for aircraft. Primer is applied to metal... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Rhode Island made an unexpected discovery when researching a brain protein called RGS9 2. The scientists were investigating RGS9... Read More »

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a molecular pathway that creates abnormal blood clotting in people... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found a way to aid in the development of nanoelectronics with the use of the thinnest material... Read More »

China will begin planning a manned mission to the moon, according to an official white paper released today. The paper, China's Space Activities in 2011, said... Read More »

The amount of data the world stores is on an explosive growth curve. And that means more data centers. But this data center boom comes at a time of high energy prices... Read More »

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern about two new H5N1 bird flu studies, which have already drawn attention from the US National Science... Read More »

Researchers from Singapore and the United Kingdom have jointly announced a new benchmark in broadband, non-linear optics using single-sheet graphene dispersions... Read More »

Pfizer has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use of its Prevnar 13 pneumococcal disease vaccine in adults 50 years of age and older. The... Read More »

Mutations in the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene may increase the risk for pancreatic cancer, according to new data. Researchers used the latest sequencing... Read More »

NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft are on track to enter lunar orbit. GRAIL-A is scheduled to be placed in orbit at 1:21... Read More »

A small company is taking an unusual tack to produce cheaper wind energy.

Could Apple already be working on an iTV?

Today's touch-screen devices seem like a thing of the future, but the technology that runs your iPad or Android can actually be traced back to 1948 and something called... Read More »

Efforts to help people with learning impairments are being aided by the sea snail Aplysia californica. Neuroscientists from the University of Texas Health... Read More »

Samsung, Sharp and five other liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturers have agreed to pay more than $553 million to settle consumer and state regulatory claims that ... Read More »

Samsung will acquire all of Sony's shares of S-LCD Corporation, the companies' LCD panel manufacturing joint venture established in 2004, making S-LCD a... Read More »