Science and engineering

Cockroaches are inspiring engineers to build robots that can scuttle through rubble after an earthquake or explore the surface of another planet.

Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) and Dollar General (NYSE: DG), one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing retailers, announced an expansion of their longstanding strategic relationship.

Besides, they started preparing for serial production of power units.

The CoE team of marketing, technology and SAS experts from Accenture Applied Intelligence helps companies drive sales through applied, real-time intelligence that enables personalized customer experiences. 

This decision advances Lonza's strategy of being one of the world’s leading, integrated, value-added solutions providers along the healthcare continuum.

Diarrheal diseases are one of the leading causes of childhood mortality globally, resulting in approximately 525,000 deaths each year and cryptosporidiosis is the second leading cause of infectious diarrhea in children under 2 years of age.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced it has reduced the size of the millimeter-wave radio units for fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications, and has developed low power consumption circuit technologies that improve installation flexibility.

Neanderthals had the brains to make complex tools but never quite got the hang of drawing on walls. 

Researchers have found a structure on the small viruses that deliver gene therapy that makes them better at crossing from the bloodstream into the brain.

Engineers used tissue paper—similar to toilet tissue—to make a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse or a blink of an eye.

There may be a protein in the body that hinders cartilage degradation in patients with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

With a new grant, a Picower Institute team is studying the role of astrocytes, which may partner with neurons to process information in the brain.

Researchers have demonstrated the existence of "turbulent dynamo," a phenomenon never measured or observed directly until now.

Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold.

An increase in corn and soybean production in the Midwest may have led to cooler, wetter summers there.