Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars
A young, free-floating world sits alone in space in this illustration. The object, called WISEA J114724.10?204021.3, is...
Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery: Renewable energy storage possible thanks to chemical conversions
PNNL's improved aqueous zinc-manganese oxide battery offers a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative for storing renewable...
System creates on-demand 'nanotube forests,' has potential industry applications
This graphic illustrates a system that uses a laser and electrical field to precisely position and align carbon nanotubes, representing a...
Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters'
The turbulent atmosphere of a hot, gaseous planet known as HD 80606b is shown in this simulation based on data from...
NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth
This illustration shows one possible scenario for the hot, rocky exoplanet called 55 Cancri e,...
New nanodevice shifts light's color at single-photon level
False-colored scanning electron micrograph of the nanophotonic frequency converter, consisting of a ring-shaped resonator (shaded blue)...
Quantum computing closer as RMIT drives towards first quantum data bus: RMIT researchers trialling a quantum processor capable of routing information from different locations have found a pathway towards the quantum data bus
Quantum information is encoded in single particles of light (photons). The perfect state transfer is applied to one photon of an...
Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust
Of the millions of dust grains Cassini has sampled at Saturn, a few dozen appear to have come from beyond our...
