NASA researchers recently traveled to Turrialba Volcano, near San Jose, Costa Rica, to fly a Dragon Eye unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into the volcano’s sulfur dioxide plume and over its summit crater, to study Turrialba’s chemical environment.
A team of international scientists has managed to successfully replicate the behaviour of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have designed a specially-adapted "tactile helmet" to provide fire-fighters operating in challenging conditions with vital clues about their surroundings.
An international team of scientists has proposed an advanced laser system, inspired by the telecommunications technology, to produce the next generation of particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Invisibility cloaks proposed by modern day scientists are still typically fairly bulky contraptions – which poses an obvious issue for those interested in designing Harry Potter-style applications.
NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists have kicked off another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice - with the first of a series of science flights from Greenland completed this past Wednesday.
A team of Australian scientists has managed to grow embryos containing the revived DNA of the extinct gastric-brooding frog, a species that incubated the prejuvenile stages of their offspring in the stomach of the mother.
At the Moriond Conference today, international scientists associated with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that offer further details about an enigmatic particle discovered last year.
