Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

According to the scientists, this reduction of cloud droplets near the cloud top is due to two processes: entrainment, where ...

The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.

A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Artificial intelligence has raced ahead so quickly that its biggest constraint is no longer clever algorithms but the ...

Researchers discovered a hidden molecular “switch” that herpes viruses rely on to invade cells. By combining AI, simulations, ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...