Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water
Martian gullies as seen in the top image from HiRISE on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resemble gullies on Earth that...
Study Finds Molecular Switch That Triggers Bacterial Pathogenicity
The top two rows show illustrations of crystals and solution structures of bacterial HU proteins with DNA represented by X-ray...
GJ 3253: Astronomers Gain New Insight into Magnetic Field of Sun and its Kin
NASA’s Next Planet Hunter Will Look Closer to Home
TESS will look at the nearest, brightest stars to find planetary candidates that scientists will observe for years to...
The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters
Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission were surprised to find that Ceres has no clear signs of truly giant impact...
New nontoxic process promises larger ultrathin sheets of 2-D nanomaterials
A new ORNL study, a new gas exfoliation process that yields a 20 percent increase in surface area per nanosheet of boron nitride.
New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity: New chemistry could overcome key drawbacks of lithium-air batteries
In a new concept for battery cathodes, nanometer-scale particles made of lithium and oxygen compounds (depicted in red and white) are...
X Marks the Spot for Milky Way Formation
Researchers used data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission to highlight the X-shaped...
