The Wings of the Seagull Nebula
This new image from ESO shows a section of a cloud of dust and glowing gas called the Seagull Nebula. These wispy red clouds form...
Quantum Dots Assemble Themselves: Surprising breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics, solar cell efficiency
Quantum dots are tiny crystals of semiconductor a few billionths of a meter in diameter. At that size they exhibit beneficial behaviors of quantum physics such as forming electron-hole pairs and harvesting excess energy.
NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
At the center of this image from NASA's Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called "John Klein" where...
3D Printing on the Micrometer Scale: KIT Spin-off “Nanoscribe“ Presents High-speed 3D Printer
Printing on the micrometer scale: Writing time for a miniaturized spacecraft is reduced to less than one minute without loss of quality.
Is the ozone layer on the road to recovery?
South Pole ozone
Using single quantum dots to probe nanowires: Lighting up plasmonic wires with nanometer accuracy
(a) This is an optical image of the microfluidic crossed-channel device. Flow in the center control region (dashed circle) is manipulated in...
Small Asteroid to Whiz Past Earth Safely
Diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.
Penn Research Shows Mechanism Behind Wear at the Atomic Scale
An illustration of a silicon AFM tip sliding over a diamond surface, with a TEM image of the tip inset.
