Parched West Is Using Up Underground Water: NASA/UCI
Surface-water depletion in the Colorado River Basin has left this "bathtub ring" of mineral deposits on Lake...
Nano-supercapacitors for electric cars
Innovative nano-material based supercapacitors are set to bring mass market appeal a good step closer to the lukewarm public interest in...
NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Maneuvers to Prepare for Close Comet Flyby
This graphic depicts the orbit of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it swings...
UCF Nanotech Spinout Developing Revolutionary Battery Technology: Power the Next Generation of Electronics with Carbon
Compact Vibration Harvester Power Supply with Highest Efficiency Opens Door to “Fix-and-Forget” Sensor Nodes
A Crystal Wedding in the Nanocosmos
Nano-optoelectronics are considered the cornerstone of future chip technology, but the research faces major challenges: on the one hand, electronic components must be accommodated into smaller and smaller spaces. On the other hand, what are known as...
Lives and Deaths of Sibling Stars
In this striking new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust. The star cluster, known as NGC 3293, would have been just a cloud of gas and dust itself...
NASA'S FERMI FINDS A 'TRANSFORMER' PULSAR
In late June 2013, an exceptional binary containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened five fold in gamma rays...
