Science

Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time

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New research using observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates that Arsia Mons, one of the largest...

Next-gen steel under the microscope

Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The old and the new bridge, as seen at night from Yerba Buena Island to Oakland (mid-September 2013). The inset in the top left hand corner shows V Vanadium and 2H, Deuterium a hydrogen isotope (1...

Electro-optical switch transmits data at record-low temperatures: Operating at temperatures near absolute zero, switch could enable significantly faster data processing with lower power consumption

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This is an illustration of a silicon photonic micro-disk modulator operating at cryogenic temperatures. Light traveling down the silicon...

Block copolymer micellization as a protection strategy for DNA origami

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DNA origami.

NASA Studying Shared Venus Science Objectives with Russian Space Research Institute

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he Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute (IKI) Venera-D mission concept includes a Venus...

Enceladus' south pole is warm under the frost

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False-colour image of Enceladus highlighting the tiger stripes in blue....

Discovery in new material raises questions about theoretical models of superconductivity

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(a) Calculated 3D Fermi surface of CaKFe 4 As 4 (b) Band dispersion along the key symmetry directions with respective orbital contributions...

New nanofiber marks important step in next generation battery development

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This is a 20 nanometer double perovskite nanofiber that can be used as a highly efficient catalyst in ultrafast oxygen evolution reactions...