Source: Phys Org

All of the atomic clocks in the world will pause for a single second on the midnight between June 30th and July 1st later this year in order to synchronize...

Nearly nine years ago, NASA sent its ​New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto. On Saturday, after all that time in transit, it will come out of hibernation for the last time...

The launch of Healthcare.gov, the US government's health insurance website, was beset with technical problems so severe that only six people were able to enroll on its first day in...

Scientific error doesn't always come from botched equations or faulty theories but bad behavior, too, sometimes scientists crack under pressure and contaminate their results by crafting fraudulent, retrospective hypotheses or...

Most invisibility cloaks require fairly exotic technology to work, such as fiber optics or light-altering metamaterials. That's not very practical, especially since the illusion still tends to break when you...

Autonomous aircraft are likely to be the future of air travel, but we're not quite there yet; even with autopilot systems in place, most airplanes are designed with human pilots...

The vocabulary we use to describe music can be tough enough for a human to grok (really, what does it mean when a guitar riff is "crunchy"?) but a team...

A tech firm in Japan recently introduced a technology that would make 3D images a little more tangible. Thanks to the use of haptic technology, which is used in everyday...

Sure, we can now 3D print stem cells and even whole organs like kidneys, heart, liver and lungs. But 3D printing blood vessels? Now that was a challenge. A team from Brigham and...

We do know that the LG G Flex smartphone does come with a kind of self-healing cover, but that material has not really made an appearance anywhere else. Well, fret not,...