Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside computer chips for the first time. Using an advanced electron microscopy method, ...

A stunning new imaging breakthrough lets scientists see — and fix — the atomic flaws hiding inside tomorrow’s computer chips.

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Earth’s orbit is filling with debris fast enough to risk a chain reaction of collisions, so agencies needed a place to safely bring dead spacecraft down. That solution is Point Nemo, a lonely patch of ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

American munitions makers are working to increase production capacity. Although Congress didn’t much bend to the White House’s last-minute request for a munitions-funding boost, defense executives say ...

Middle age is becoming a tougher chapter for many Americans, especially those born in the 1960s and early 1970s. Compared with earlier generations, they report more loneliness and depression, along ...

Abstract: We propose Next Bit Prediction (NBP), a unified framework that simultaneously addresses lossless compression and lossy reconstruction of 3D point cloud geometry through a next-bit ...

Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History last week exhibited an extraordinary collection of objects: a stony meteorite with a charred black surface, about the size of a military hand grenade and ...

Researchers have discovered a brain activity pattern that can predict which people with mild cognitive impairment are likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Using a noninvasive brain scanning ...

After holding its breath for several rough years, Greater Boston’s life sciences sector is cautiously coming up for air. It was a year of devastating uncertainty for the sector and its roughly 75,000 ...

A 2021 astronaut photo shows a triple valley system in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park where a massive climate-resilient glacier, a pristine turquoise lake and a murky green "river" come ...