What Is Genetic Modification? By Rachel Ross Genetic modification purposefully alters the genetic makeup of organisms through controlled breeding or via genetic engineering technologies such as CRISPR.
This Is the Purest Beam of Light in the World By Rafi Letzter The device, built to be portable enough for use in space, produces a beam of laser light that changes less over time than any other laser humanity has created.
New MIT Laser Device Whispers Secret Sounds Into Your Ear By Rafi Letzter Imagine sitting down to dinner with a group of friends, when a laser tickles the water molecules inside your ear. "Hello!" you hear.
Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger's Cats By Rafi Letzter A laser pulse glanced off a rubidium atom and entered the quantum world — taking on the weird physics of Schrödinger's cat.
Stratolaunch, Builder of Gargantuan Airplane, Drops Rocket Plans By Megan Gannon Stratolaunch will continue to work on the world's largest airplane, but the company will abandon plans for its own rockets.
Check Out These Amazing Super-Detailed Images of Fruit Fly Brains By Rafi Letzter A team of neuroscientists have produced a series of amazing, detailed images of fruit fly brains using a brand-new combination of imaging techniques.
Physicists Want to Build an Even More Powerful Atom Smasher at CERN By Yasemin Saplakoglu The search for the universe's hidden particles continues
Electricity Basics: Resistance, Inductance and Capacitance By Jim Lucas Resistors, inductors and capacitors are basic electrical components that make modern electronics possible.
Physicists Built a Machine That Breaks the Normal Rules of Light By Rafi Letzter Physicists have built a ring in which pulses of light whip circles around each other and the normal rules that govern light's behavior stop applying.
Scientists Are Legit Building a Steam-Powered Spaceship, And It Sounds Awesome By Brandon Specktor Half a century after the first manned space flight, space travel may be about to enter the age of steam.
Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve By Rafi Letzter Researchers working on machine learning have discovered a problem that no one, anywhere in the universe, will ever be able to solve.
Amelia Earhart Would Have a Hard Time Disappearing in 2019 By Brian Strzempkowski, Shawn Pruchnicki From the early years of aviation up until about 2000, the main way pilots navigated was by playing connect-the-dots across a map.
China May Have Put a Working Electromagnetic Gun on a Warship. Is This a Big Deal? By Rafi Letzter China appears to have beaten the U.S. in the race to mount a rail gun on a battleship. Does it matter?
AI Can Now Decode Words Directly from Brain Waves By Rafi Letzter The technology could help people with diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) speak via a brain-computer interface.
Laser-Blasted Plasma Is Cooler Than Deep Space...Literally By Mindy Weisberger Laser-cooled plasma has all the chill.
Scientists Proposed a Nuclear 'Tunnelbot' to Hunt Life in Europa's Hidden Ocean By Rafi Letzter A group of scientists wants to send a nuclear-powered "tunnelbot" to Europa to blaze a path through its thick shell of ice and search for life.
What Is X-Ray Spectroscopy? By Rachel Ross X-ray spectroscopy is used in many areas of science, medicine and technology, to better understand the characteristics of a material at the atomic level.
Humanity's Largest Atom Smasher Takes a Pause, Will Wake Up Again in 2021 By Rafi Letzter Particles: Breathe easy. Scientists at the world's largest particle collider have no plans to smash you together until spring 2021.
While You Weren't Looking, Engineers Combined a Plane and a Blimp to Make a Plimp Airship By Laura Geggel What happens when you cross a blimp with a plane, and give it a few helicopter abilities? A lighter-than-air plimp-hybrid airship is born, according to a Seattle-based company looking for investors.
