In the world of optics, tiny structures called microcavities—often no wider than a human hair—play a crucial role in ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s final determination that challenged patent claims were not unpatentable, finding that the Board’s decision ...

Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid façade are countless miniature explosions called nanoflares. These small but intense eruptions are born when ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are leveraging the power of machine learning to improve X-ray-guided pelvic fracture surgery, an operation to treat an injury commonly sustained during car ...

This new collection of images from NASA's Chandra space telescope — which launched in 1999 — shows what different objects in space look like with an added layer of X-ray vision. While the Hubble Space ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Researchers have invented a chip that may soon allow your smartphone to look through solid surfaces. An ability previously restricted to science fiction and Superman may soon just be ...

As one of the most recognizable superheroes in comic book history, Superman has always sported top-of-the-line powers. One of is most iconic abilities made the least sense for a long time, however.

Ongoing research by an international team of astronomers is providing new insights into cataclysmic cosmic collisions between galaxy clusters. Using the world’s most powerful X-ray space observatory, ...

The technology that the nine justices of the Supreme Court wrestled with last week was relatively crude: a heat-sensing gun pointed at a house in Florence, Ore., by federal agents on the lookout for ...

The new Superman mini-series, Superman: Lost written by the extraordinary Christopher Priest and drawn by Carlo Pagulayan and Jason Paz, sees a Superman stranded across the cosmos for twenty years, ...

In the last five years, researchers have published reports on the nucleotide sequences of several eukaryotic genomes. However, the functions of the majority of gene products from these genomes, ...