NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto
Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this...
Penn researchers discover new chiral property of silicon, with photonic applications
By encoding information in photons via their spin, photonic computers could be orders of magnitude faster and efficient than their current-...
Gaia satellite and amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star
Artist’s impression of Gaia14aae.
Nanowires give 'solar fuel cell' efficiency a tenfold boost: Eindhoven researchers make important step towards a solar cell that generates hydrogen
Array of nanowires gallium phosphide made with an electron microscope.
NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” -...
Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s 'Heart'
This annotated view of a portion of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth’s first artificial satellite,...
U.S. Navy Researchers First to Find Spin Precession in Silicon Nanowires
False color atomic force microscopy image of a silicon nanowire with the four contacts...
Plantations of nanorods on carpets of graphene capture the Sun's energy
This is the microscopic image of the novel 3D photocatalytic material, designed by scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of...
