Research in Action

Researchers hope to develop new therapies with the recent discovery.

A collaborative set of high-tech instruments is now capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside our solar system.

Technology from forensic science, gaming and virtual reality combined create an efficient tool for law enforcement.

Robo-fish will work as a school to scan water for pollutants.

Backyard birders can provide scientists with important, and otherwise unobtainable, data.

Researchers at Arecibo Observatory are listening to strange stars called pulsars.

Nanoparticles change color to indicate the presence of deadly salmonella.

The R/V Knorr research expedition included studies of seafloor sediments along the equator and in the northern Pacific.

Engineers could craft new materials using liquid crystals as structural guides.

A protein machine unwinds DNA molecules