NASA Mission Helps Craft 3-D Image Of Buried Mars Flood Channels
This illustration schematically shows where the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected flood...
Measuring the Universe More Accurately Than Ever Before
Stressed proteins can cause blood clots for hours: Physicists probe stress-induced changes in clot-forming protein
Rice University researchers in the lab of Ching-Hwa Kiang use the bobbing needle from an atomic force microscope to grab and pull...
First discovery of a natural topological insulator
The mineral Kawazulite is a natural “topological insulator,” a material that could have applications in a new genre of supercomputers.
A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface
Based on new evidence from Jupiter's moon Europa, astronomers hypothesize that chloride salts bubble up from the icy moon...
High mass X-ray binaries trace the Milky Way's spiral arms
Artist's impression of a highly obscured high-mass X-ray binary.
Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader
Renewable energy: Nanotubes to channel osmotic power
Diagram of the experimental principle: the osmotic transport of water through a transmembrane boron nitride nanotube.
