A company called Integrated Roadways plans to add "smart pavement" to an intersection it is working on in Denver, Colorado. The road will be in an industrial section of the city and runs between a Pepsi Co. bottling plant and two parking lots nearby. Integrated Roadways says that the pavement is embedded with electronics.
MIT researchers have designed a new system that is meant to overcome a longstanding challenge with communication between the air and beneath the water. Wireless underwater sensors are currently unable to share data with sensors on land because the signals able to travel through the air dissipate quickly in the water. At the same time, acoustic signals (sonar) signals sent by underwater devices reflect off the surface of the water without breaking through.
Arctic permafrost may be thawing decades sooner than expected, according to a new report, releasing trapped greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change. The startling discovery was recently made by researchers working 200 miles north of the Arctic circle in Russia, where they found patches of land the remained thawed throughout the winter.
A new study suggests that life on Earth is far older than science once suspected. The scientific world's been relying on the oldest known fossils to date the start of life on this planet - they've been doing this for ages. This sort of science works, but because its source material changes, it's not entirely accurate. A study published this week combines both fossil and genome science to date our ancestors well beyond what's been found in the ground.
A mesmerizing natural light show long considered to be another aurora is actually something completely unknown, scientists have concluded, after digging into the oddly-named STEVE phenomenon. The glowing ribbons of white and purple light had been observed in Canada's night sky for many years, with the unsurprising assumption that it was just another type of aurora.
NASA's InSight spacecraft has called home for an mid-flight update, halfway through its roughly 300 million mile trip to Mars. Launched on May 5, InSight - or "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport" - used the opportunity to run through the status of its equipment, as it prepares for a never-before-attempted mission.
NASA scientists have directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface for the first time. The evidence of water ice was found in the darkest and coldest parts of the polar regions of the moon. Scientists say that these ice deposits are patchily distributed and could be ancient.
An extract made from maple leaves may prevent skin wrinkles, as well as improving dark spots and fading unwanted freckles. The news was revealed ahead of the upcoming American Chemical Society exposition, which will take place on Thursday. If brought to market, the extract could be applied topically to one's face as a non-invasive treatment.
MIT researchers led by Professor Dina Katabi are working on a new system called ReMix that is described as a GPS system for the human body. The system is meant to allow the precise location of ingested markers inside the body. Those sensors can be very tiny because they need no internal power source and don’t have to make the wireless signals on their own.
As group photos go, NASA's latest snapshot of 15,000 galaxies across the universe has to be one of the biggest, with the epic image spanning not only distance but time, too. Captured using the Hubble Space Telescope, the new photo is dominated by forming stars: newly blooming points of light that stud freshly-created galaxies.
A group of researchers has been studying the galaxies that are orbiting our own Milky Way galaxy. According to these researchers, the faintest galaxies that are orbiting the Milky Way are also among the very first galaxies that formed in our universe. The team of researchers includes Professor Carlos Frenk and Dr Alis Deason from the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) at Durham University and Dr Sownak Bose from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in America.
A new study has found that consuming a moderate amount of carbohydrates may be the best diet for human health. According to the research, which was published in The Lancet Public Health journal, diets composed 50- to 55-percent of carbohydrates were associated with lower risk of mortality compared to low and high carbohydrate diets. As well, the study indicates that not all low-carb diets are the same when it comes to health, with plant-based ones being ideal.