"We don't make that kind of glass," said Waguih Ishak, director of Corning Inc.'s West Coast Research Center, pointing to the windows lining his office and, beyond that, to the windshields of the cars parked outside.
Modern technology has blurred the boundaries between place, time zone, and people—between students learning details, and scientists leading discoveries.
Part of the SEURAT-1 cluster, TOXBANK (Supporting Integrated Data Analysis and Servicing of Alternative Testing Methods in Toxicology) has developed a series of tools for the scientific community which are expected to help ...
Chinese president Xi Jinping will return to Beijing with good reason to think his first trip to the UK was a roaring success. Feted by a UK government more concerned with cash than with China's domestic human rights record, ...
First-borns are responsible, middle children are people pleasers and the youngest are attention seekers, we often hear. But scientists have failed to find any real evidence for a link between birth order and personality.
(Phys.org)—In 1876, the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann noticed something surprising about his equations that describe the flow of heat in a gas. Usually, the colliding gas particles eventually reach a state of thermal ...
Latest developments in the announcements of the Nobel Prizes (all times local):
Al Baker and his business co-creator Muhammad Abdurrahman entered into business with noble intentions.
China's pledge to help crack down on hackers who steal commercial secrets from the United States, even coming as it did amid a bit of arm-twisting by President Barack Obama, is a big breakthrough that could reduce U.S.-China ...
A team including the scientist who first harnessed the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has now identified a different CRISPR system with the potential for even simpler and more precise genome ...
