Millions of Americans tap their smartphone screens daily to order rides, groceries or dinner, hooked on the seamless convenience of the gig economy. Yet beneath this frictionless interface lies a ...

Fusion energy has always had a tritium problem. The fuel that powers every leading reactor design barely exists on Earth in usable quantities, and the best candidate for breeding it inside a reactor — ...

As Venezuela faces the aftermath of a pair of earthquakes that killed thousands of people, questions are raised about ...

Semiconductors are central to modern technology. They are used in computer chips, solar cells, sensors, LEDs and ...

A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our ...

An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare "super-puff" planets with densities lower than candy floss. The study—led by the University of ...

People can calculate their total cholesterol by adding their levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and 20% of their triglycerides. High total ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders. Solvej Balle in her garden in Denmark.Credit...Giulia Mangione for The ...

We are excited to share our first big milestone in solving a grand challenge that has hampered the predictive power of computational chemistry, biochemistry, and materials science for decades. By ...

The safe-by-design of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) for any application requires a detailed understanding of how the particles interact with single cells. Most studies are based on two-dimensional, ...

Abstract: The critical clearing time, t/sub cc/, in power system transient stability analysis is modeled as a random variable due to the random nature of the power system load. A linear approximation ...