Superconducting circuits, simplified: New circuit design could unlock the power of experimental superconducting computer chips
Shown here is a square-centimeter chip containing the nTron adder, which performed the first computation using the researchers' new...
NASA's Opportunity Rover Gets Panorama Image at 'Wdowiak Ridge'
This vista from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows "Wdowiak Ridge," from left foreground to center, as part of a northward...
Boeing Concludes Commercial Crew Space Act Agreement for CST-100/Atlas V
Boeing has successfully completed the final milestone of its Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) Space Act Agreement with NASA. The work and testing completed under the agreement resulted in significant maturation of Boeing’s crew...
Plastic nanoparticles also harm freshwater organisms
Plastic in the oceans (plastic soup) has been thought to seriously affect aquatic life for some time, but until now little research has been carried out into the levels and effects of plastics in the freshwater environment. ‘The main sources of...
Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean
A new study focused on the interior of Saturn's icy moon Mimas suggests its cratered surface hides one of two intriguing possibilities: Either the moon's frozen core is shaped something like a football, or the satellite contains a liquid water ocean...
Magnetic mirrors enable new technologies by reflecting light in uncanny ways
This is an artist's impression of a comparison between a magnetic mirror with cube-shaped resonators (left) and a standard metallic mirror...
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
This is an artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering...
Construction Secrets of a Galactic Metropolis
Astronomers have used the APEX telescope to probe a huge galaxy cluster that is forming in the early Universe and revealed that...
