Humans can do plenty, but plants have an ability we don't: they make energy straight from sunlight, a superpower called photosynthesis. Yet new research shows that scientists are closing that gap.

Cultured neural tissues have been widely used as a simplified experimental model for brain research. However, existing ...

Ghost imaging is like a game of Battleship. Instead of seeing an object directly, scientists use entangled photons to remove the background and reveal its silhouette. This method can be used to study ...

On the night of Jan. 29, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in Washington, killing all 67 people on both aircraft. To analyze this ...

A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has created aerial robots outfitted with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect, track and analyze wildfire smoke plumes — possibly ...

3D analysis shows countersnipers likely had difficulty seeing the gunman before he fired. Within seconds of 20-year-old Pennsylvania resident Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire at former president ...