The fossil of a still-unnamed species provides the first known record of the abelisaurid group of theropods from a middle Cretaceous-aged (approximately 98 million years old) rock unit known as… Read More »Bizarre meat-eating dinosaur joins ‘Rogues’ Gallery’ of giant predators from classic fossil site in Egypt’s Sahara Desert
A team of engineers has demonstrated for the first time that the Bluetooth signals emitted constantly by our mobile phones have a unique fingerprint that can be used to track… Read More »Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones
Using cutting-edge electron microscopes and novel techniques, a team of researchers has found a way to map phonons — vibrations in crystal lattices — in atomic resolution, enabling deeper understanding… Read More »Scientists observe effects of heat in materials with atomic resolution
A recently discovered, rare and persistent rapid-fire fast radio burst source — sending out an occasional and informative cosmic ping from more than 3.5 billion light years away — helps… Read More »Rapid-fire fast radio burst shows hot space between galaxies
As electronic, thermoelectric and computer technologies have been miniaturized to nanometer scale, engineers have faced a challenge studying fundamental properties of the materials involved; in many cases, targets are too… Read More »Phonon dynamics enable a deeper understanding of how heat travels through quantum dots