Science and engineering

Volvo Cars will from today start developing its autonomous drive cars with help from Swedish families who will test its cars on the public roads of Gothenburg and feed back their impressions to Volvo Cars engineers.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced it has developed automatic optimization technology for deep learning in order to facilitate improvements in recognition accuracy.

The first patient was enrolled in June 2017, 431 subjects were screened and 404 patients enrolled.

New research has reveals that the human body clock causes the results of tests for asthma to differ, according to the time of day.

A new explanation for how clay formed on the surface of Mars could rewrite the red planet's early history.

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation today announced the launch of the MG07ACA Series, the world’s first^[1] enterprise 14TB^[2] Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD.

Scientists have turned a common tofu byproduct into a slightly sweet, alcoholic beverage called Sachi. Would you try it?

Despite their widespread use, little research has looked at the impact of environmental nanoparticles—whether natural or human-made—on plant growth.

A UCLA-led study finds that negative health effects are a powerful force to reduce consumption.

Findings present a puzzle as to how such a huge object could have grown so quickly.

A new study suggests many proteins remain expanded in the cell, rather than contracting into tight folded shapes. This affects how we envision the movement of a protein through its life.

Walking in one area of London instead of another undid the impact a two-hour stroll would otherwise have on older adults' heart and lungs.

"Higher exposure to cortisol may signal the fetus to adapt in ways that help survival, but don't help health and longevity."

47 million Americans already demonstrate some evidence of susceptibility to the disease.

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced development of the world's first technology for bonding single-crystal diamond to a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate at room temperature