Advance nearly doubles chip density, but also highlights the challenge of sustaining historic trend By pushing into a new dimension, engineers at IBM have nearly doubled the number of transistors they can fit...

All over the world, industrial sand mining is extracting river sediment much, much faster than Earth’s natural cycles can replenish it. Our rivers are, quite literally, running out of sand. Scientists...

Boston College scientists have determined that a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27 billion years old and derived from a previously unsampled, pristine source on the Red Planet. The study...