Science

UN invited to monitor and assist fresh evacuation efforts under way in war-ravaged Aleppo

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One of six mobile clinics provided by WHO to deliver health services to people fleeing violence in Aleppo,...

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Researchers, ski safety experts develop new tool that maps potential avalanches

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A researcher prepares to use a laser scanning (lidar) unit to scan snow depth at the Arapahoe Ski Basin Ski area in...

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Antarctic Site Promises to Open a New Window on the Cosmos

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Sea ice hits record lows

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The graph above shows daily Arctic sea ice extent as of December 5, 2016, along with daily ice...

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Giant heads sculpted from fruit and vegetables draw attention to rural communities at climate summit

Drawing attention to the impact that climate change is having on smallholder farmers and rural communities in developing countries, British artists Adam and Silas Birtwistle unveiled four giant heads – Voices from the Good Earth - sculpted from fruit...

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Shape matters when light meets atom: Mapping the interaction of a single atom with a single photon may inform design of quantum devices

But look closely at the moment that light meets matter, and there's more to be discovered. Scientists at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore have just shown that a photon's shape also affects how it is...

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UTSA study describes new minimally invasive device to treat cancer and other illnesses: Medicine diffusion capsule could locally treat multiple ailments and diseases over several weeks

"The problem with most drug-delivery systems is that you have a specific minimum dosage of medicine that you need to take for it to be effective," Hood said. "There's also a limit to how much of the drug can be present in your system so that it doesn'...

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Scientists shrink electron gun to matchbox size: Terahertz technology has the potential to enable new applications

The new device uses laser generated terahertz radiation instead of the usual radio-frequency fields to accelerate electrons from rest. As the wavelength of the terahertz radiation is much shorter than radio-frequency radiation, the device can shrink...

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