Science

Japan’s aid guided by clear vision and priorities but should focus on countries and people most in need

Japan has increased its spending on overseas development assistance (ODA) and is showing more global leadership, but needs to pay more attention to where it is spending the money and increase its focus on results and transparency.

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Fundamental Chemistry Findings Could Help Extend Moore’s Law: A Berkeley Lab-Intel collaboration outlines the chemistry of photoresist, enabling smaller features for future generations of microprocessors

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When a low concentrations of crosslinker is added to resist (left), it is able to pattern smaller features and doesn’t require longer,...

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CIQUS researchers develop an extremely simple procedure to obtain nanosized graphenes

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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) image of a clover-shaped nanographenes

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NASA Turns Over Next-Generation Air Traffic Management Tool to Federal Aviation Administration

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As seen in this image, Terminal Sequencing and Spacing technology enables air traffic controllers to better manage the spacing...

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Looking Back at the Jupiter Crash 20 Years Later

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NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured these four views of Jupiter as the last of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's large fragments...

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NASA Rover's Images Show Laser Flash on Martian Rock

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Adopting the euro: criteria, decision-making and the next countries in line

The euro zone could get bigger next year. After the European Commission said Lithuania was ready to adopt the common currency, the Parliament will vote on its opinion on 16 July. The final decision will be made by the Council at the end of July. Read...

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Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'

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The carbon buckyball has a boron cousin. A cluster for 40 boron atoms forms a hollow cage-like molecule.

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