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Scientists have developed a new technique for making tissue samples transparent.

The United States Air Force Academy has been ranked the 4th best college in the west and the 34th best in the nation by Forbes.

A warm, furry mouse has been transformed into a pale, gooey-looking "see-through" version of its former self, by researchers wielding a new technique they say could be used to better understand processes in the body.

Like Curiosity's landing method in 2012, the Mars 2020 rover will use a similar "skycrane" to be lowered onto the Red Planet's surface.

Business magazine Forbes has named the University of Colorado's Boulder campus to its 2014 list of America's most entrepreneurial schools .

Researchers have found a way to make see-through mice, but you won't find these critters scampering in your kitchen.

Whereas, little attention has been given to long-term thermal stability of secondary phases and microstructural evolution."

This rendering shows the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope planned for the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island.

Money magazine entered the college-ranking game on Monday, declaring the little-known Babson College as the nation's "best bang for your buck" university.

WASHINGTON residents concerned about Victoria's sewage discharge might take comfort in knowing that it's a treatment system based on research by such august U.S. institutions as University of California, Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology, and the U.S. National Research Council.

In the year 2393 a historian in the Second People's Republic of China penned a book about how scientists, economists and politicians living in the 21st century failed to act on the solid science they had that gave clear warnings of the climate catastrophe ahead.

The American Society of Hematology will honor Tomas Ganz, MD, PhD, of the University of California - Los Angeles with the 2014 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture for his groundbreaking research in iron homeostasis, including the discovery of the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin and investigation of its roles in iron metabolism.

Mathematical equations can make Internet communication via computer, mobile phone or satellite many times faster and more secure than today.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover completed a Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

Twenty years ago, human and robotic eyes observed the first recorded impact between cosmic bodies in the solar system, as fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the atmosphere of Jupiter.

NIF Target Chamber This view from the bottom of the chamber shows the target positioner being inserted.

Mathematical equations can make Internet communication via computer, mobile phone or satellite many times faster and more secure than today.

Diamond has been subjected to the wrath of the world's largest laser, which compressed the stone to greater pressures than it has ever experienced on Earth.

A critical vote is scheduled for Tuesday in Washington, D.C., that could provide federal funding for an earthquake early warning system on the West Coast.

In the financial world, some shares have new owners every second . Today, much of the buying and selling is done by computers, but many trades still rely on human intuition-the gut feeling of the experienced trader.