Research and development

As the number of white residents in a neighborhood declines, noise levels go up. And segregated cities are louder than others, report researchers.

HP Inc. and NVIDIA® teamed up with Autodesk, Fusion, Launch Forth, Technicolor, Unreal Engine and VIVE to launch HP Mars Home Planet – a global project using virtual reality to simulate what a human population of one million could look like on Mars.

Research conducted over more than a decade indicates that loneliness increases self-centeredness and, to a lesser extent, self-centeredness also increases loneliness.

An international team led by the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering has discovered how to manipulate a weird quantum interface between light and matter in silicon carbide along wavelengths used in telecommunications.

Consumers may tune in to prices when they need to — but recall data poorly, study finds.

A new design could let robots collapse themselves for transport or stretch around obstacles.

~ Company now owns full global rights to late-stage program with clinical proof-of-concept ~

Study ties specific interval during an extended period of volcanism to Earth’s most severe mass extinction.

Scientists can now explore in a laboratory dish how the human brain develops by creating organoids — distinct, three-dimensional regions of the brain.

Just one gram of a new reusable filter could treat 83,000 liters of contaminated water—enough to supply the daily needs of 11,000 people.

New approach yields long-lasting configurations that could provide long-sought “qubit” material.

Up to half of the matter in the Milky Way may come from far-off galaxies—including the atoms that make up each of us.

A catalog of about 200 galaxy clusters may be contain the most distant ever found—it could also help solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries.

"The data suggest that there is very likely a relationship between exposure to football and risk of developing" chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Flying into buildings and other human-made objects kills billions of birds yearly. New research suggests the size—and location—of buildings are key factors.