The Birth of a Giant Planet?
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still...
Using Microbes to Generate Electricity
Private US Group Plans Mars Fly-by in 2018
Plans are underway for the first manned mission to Mars -- just five years from now.
NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin
This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun....
Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph
This image compresses the Vela movie sequence into a single snapshot by merging pie-slice...
Rice builds nanotube photodetector: Project with Sandia National Laboratories leads to promising optoelectronic device
This illustration shows an array of parallel carbon nanotubes 300 micrometers long that are attached to electrodes and display unique...
Changing Shape Makes Chemotherapy Drugs Better at Targeting Cancer Cells: Researchers at UC Santa Barbara find that making anti-cancer drug particles rod-shaped significantly increases their ability to target and inhibit breast cancer cells
Home-Made Traffic Nanopaints Used in Longest Iranian Tunnel
The municipality of Tehran used traffic nanopaints produced by Pishgaman Fanavari Asia Company on the surface of the passages in Niyayesh...
