Nano-needles for cells
PINT-SIZED NAIL BED: Into the oven goes a thin copper plate. Out come the needles that will force stubborn cells to take their medicine.
Forecast for Titan: Wild Weather Could be Ahead
Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid...
Whirlpools on the Nanoscale Could Multiply Magnetic Memory: At the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab scientists join an international team to control spin orientation in magnetic nanodisks
The electron spins in a magnetic vortex all point in parallel, either clockwise or counterclockwise. Spins in the crowded core of the...
Researchers Stitch Defects into the World’s Thinnest Semiconductor
A false-color electron microscopy image showing the star-shaped crystals in monolayers of two-dimensional semiconducting molybdenum...
Mega-galaxy is Missing Link in History of Cosmos
The image at right shows a close-up of the colliding galaxies in red and green. The...
Moonrise over Earth, by Rosetta
Moonrise over Earth
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilled into this rock target, "Cumberland," during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the...
Competition in the Quantum World
The physicists engineer a classical environment, which generates dissipative dynamics, leading to fragile long-range quantum mechanical...
