Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

Southwest Airlines on Friday began flying its first jetliner built with a secondary flight deck barrier designed to prevent intrusions in a design change that's been ...

Pune: Anyone fascinated by the night sky full of stars has likely wondered their distance from Earth. A recent study led by Anupam Bhardwaj from Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

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The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to facilitate chemical reactions. While single-celled life has existed almost as ...

Fixing climate change is no small task — just ask carbon removal developers like Mitti Labs. The New York-based startup has developed technology to measure how much methane is released by rice paddies ...

It was a sweltering afternoon at a Walmart near Traverse City, Michigan. Families moved up and down the aisles, oblivious to the danger looming nearby—until chaos erupted. In seconds, 11 people went ...

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with ...

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Fidelity National Information Services Inc. FIS has teamed up with Circle Internet Group Inc. CRCL to facilitate the use of stablecoins by financial institutions. What Happened: The partnership ...

Scientists recently estimated, for the first time, that the North Atlantic Ocean contains millions of tons of nanoplastics. To measure it, they used a detection method that picks up the chemical ...