Why your phone charges quickly one day but slowly the next, or why electric cars still take an hour or more to charge, is a matter of how lithium ions move into a battery’s electrodes. Scientists ...

A spinel-type sulfide semiconductor that can emit light from violet to orange at room temperature has been developed by researchers at Science Tokyo, overcoming the efficiency limitations of current ...

A thin section of a maize ear at a very early stage of development (about 3 millimeters long). Each color represents the expression of a different gene in stem cells and associated cells. Credit: ...

This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. ICE is using all manner of ...

In this captivating video, discover how to create a free energy solar cell using LEDs and transistors. We guide you step by step through the process, explaining how these components can be cleverly ...

Researchers at the Van Andel Institute suggest that the routes cancer cells use to process different nutrients deeply influence cell behavior. They discovered an alternate, or non-canonical, path by ...

Carey Gallagher began her senior year at Yonkers Middle High School in New York this week alongside 1,438 students, now all required to place their cellphones in a locked magnetic pouch. Yonkers ...

A new Ohio law requires school districts to ban cell phone use by students. But what are the policies for teachers using their phones in school? In Ohio's two-year budget, state lawmakers prohibited ...

“The magic was in dialing each layer’s chemistry to play nice,” says Wei Tang. “We finally hit that sweet spot where durability and performance shake hands.” This kind of teamwork—federal backing ...

The celebrity chef and “Hell’s Kitchen” star underwent surgery for basal cell carcinoma and shared photos of his stitches, urging the public to use sunscreen. Celebrity chef and restaurateur Gordon ...

Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era Intervention Unit nicknamed the “dungeon” and has ...