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Using a tabletop laser, University of Rochester optical scientists have turned pure aluminum, gold. And blue. And gray. And many other colors. And it works for every metal tested.

New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor.

New natural compound derived from an uncommon deep-sea sponge was extremely effective at inhibiting cancer cell growth.

Sculpting a surface composed of tightly packed nanostructures that resemble tiny nails, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and their colleagues from Bell Laboratories have created a material that can repel almost any liquid.

Stanford computer scientists, can take any two-dimensional image and create a three-dimensional "fly around" model of its content, giving viewers access to the scene's depth and a range of points of view.

Researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.

From deploying robots in the rain forest to testing fitness products in triathlons, engineers are living their dreams and redefining "work."

ESA’s orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral, has made the first unambiguous discovery of highly energetic X-rays coming from a galaxy cluster. The find has shown the cluster to be a giant particle accelerator.

Research into unusual storms gives a more precise idea about the origin of current flows and likewise can help to gain a better understanding of terrestrial meteorology.

What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect the earliest signs of cancer?