In the world of optics, tiny structures called microcavities—often no wider than a human hair—play a crucial role in ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s final determination that challenged patent claims were not unpatentable, finding that the Board’s decision ...

Since the 1960s, scientists who study X-rays, lightning and similar phenomena have observed something curious: In lab experiments replicating these occurrences, electrons accelerated between two ...

This new collection of images from NASA's Chandra space telescope — which launched in 1999 — shows what different objects in space look like with an added layer of X-ray vision. While the Hubble Space ...

It turns out you don’t have to be from a distant planet or be involved in a chemical spill to have X-ray vision. Researchers have discovered a way to identify the human form through walls. Students ...

Protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is now activated in Amazon Web Services (AWS) by default, CTO Werner Vogels announced today at Amazon re:Invent. The new service is ...

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch Earth's atmosphere "breathing out and breathing in" to uncover key space ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the phased-in opening of the Mexican border to allow cattle, bison and equine to again enter the United States. On July 7, the first opening was at ...