Science and engineering

The value of products we’ve seen in the recent past influences how much people say they’ll pay for other items, a new study suggests.

Many of California's birds appear to be adapting to climate change by breeding between five and 12 days earlier now than they did 75 to 100 years ago, according to a new study by Berkeley researchers.

On World Diabetes Day, the United Nations health agency has said that women – especially those in low-income countries – are particularly vulnerable to diabetes, a condition that can be prevented or delayed with medication, regular screening and healthier lives.

A new mathematical model zooms in on how influential individuals sway groups to disregard the truth and adopt false positions.

NEC Corporation today announced the global commercialization of a new network server that complies with LoRa (Long Range) WAN, a new wireless communication technology, and LPWA (Low Power Wide Area), which creates wide area networks with low power consumption.

 The multi-year agreement provides Rockwell Collins with 3,000 hours of high-definition (HD) content, including dramas, comedies and lifestyle programming.

The flu can be deadly—particularly after you've fended off a serious initial infection.

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces a new contract with US-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for a 30-Qubit Atos Quantum Learning Machine (QLM), the world's highest-performing quantum simulator. 

FUJIFILM Corporation has announced that, on November 10, it made a 170 million yen capital investment, through a third-party share allocation, in TOKIWA-Bio, Inc., a bioventure exploring the practical application of therapeutic drugs based on new transgenic technologies

The latest Cygnus spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) has been successfully launched by an Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, on its eighth operational mission

Sojitz Corporation and Koiwai Co., Ltd. have established JAMPT Corporation to mass produce and sell products manufactured using 3D printing technology that laminates metal powders

From 2025, autonomous, connected and fully automated agricultural vehicles will be a common sight on farm fields.

According to the findings of FAO's 2017 Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report, there is a pressing need to tackle malnutrition alongside further promotion of the consumption of healthier foods while curbing the growth in consumption of unhealthy foods.

Initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies

A newly discovered gene cluster could work like a probe for dioxane, a groundwater contaminant and suspected carcinogen.