Science

Scientists at Australian National University have discovered at technique that makes atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more sensitive and adept at identifying forces as tiny as the weight of an individual virus. The technique employs laser beams to cool a nanowire probe to minus 265 degrees Celsius.

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago has recently developed a new technique allowing them to record the quantum mechanical behavior or a diamond’s individual electron within a nanonscale defect. Their technique uses ultrafast pulses of laser light both to control the defect’s entire quantum state and observe how that single electron state changes over time. The work …

Researchers have discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genetic information with one another. The research by Virginia Tech scientist Jim Westwood, throws open the door to a new arena of science that explores how plants communicate with each other on a molecular level.

Scientists excavating an ancient U.S. cave believed to contain the remains of Ice Age mammals have found hundreds of prehistoric animals. The researchers are pretty sure the animals fell into the sinkhole and died, according to Reuters.

A man who was having little luck catching salmon decided to look for fossils over the weekend and found a woolly mammoth tusk in the same Alaska location where his mother found one 22 years ago.

Seven rare, microscopic interstellar dust particles that date to the beginnings of the solar system are among the samples collected by scientists who have been studying the payload from NASA’s Stardust spacecraft since its return to Earth in 2006. If confirmed, these particles would be the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust.

Scientists confirmed snow has thinned significantly in the Arctic over the past century. The study looked at data collected by ice buoys and NASA aircraft and compared it with historic ice floes recorded by Soviet scientists from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, the University of Washington reported.

An extended close encounter with a humpback whale off B.C.’s north coast was caught on camera, and some of the incredible footage is now being shared online.

There’s a document being circulated through various media outlets that suggests the Toronto group had every intention of relocating the Buffalo Bills to Toronto upon their purchase of the team.

Iranian-origin professor at Stanford University became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, Wednesday.

The remains of a new species of flying reptile have been classified. The fossils of 47 of the pterosaurs were found in southern Brazil. Scientists determined they lived 100 million years ago.