Scientists have, for the very first time, managed to levitate individual nanodiamonds in a vacuum by using a laser. The new findings may create extremely sensitive instruments that could be used for sensing tiny forces and torques.
The DOTS qPCR device has the ability to greatly reduce the time needed for doctors to be able to make diagnosis-based decisions.
China is known for its smoggy, black skies that can cause health hazards to the public. But for a few days before Beijing's military parade, the city experienced perfect, azure skies.
It turns out that estrogen may be causing frogs to change in suburban areas. Scientists have found that estrogen is changing the ratio of male to female green frogs at nearby ponds.
It turns out that volunteers may be good as professionals when it comes to hunting down black holes.
More intensive farming practice may seem like a bad thing for the environment. Now, though, researchers have found that intensive farming practices may be better for tropical birds.
When it comes to saving the environment, understanding the world's oceans is crucial. Scientists have announced that a greater understanding of our oceans is essentially for the well being of the world's population.
Now that NASA New Horizons spacecraft has passed Pluto and is on its way to the Kuiper belt, it's now time to look at the data. The spacecraft has officially begun its intensive data downlink phase, while will tell scientists more than ever about the tiny dwarf planet.
A mysterious fireball lit up Thailand on Monday morning, exploding in a brilliant ball of light that briefly illuminated Bangkok. What this object was, though, has remained open to speculation. Though experts have now weighed in.
New findings published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine reveal that a highly effective drug that helps smokers quit doesn't increase their risk of heart attack or depression, as was once thought.
A team of researchers at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt examined the completely preserved skeleton of a 120-million-year-old reptile, making it 25 million years older than the previously known oldest specimen.
New findings published in the journal Cell Death Discovery suggest, for the first time, that the use of local anesthetics may affect tooth cell growth as well as the development of children's teeth.
