Science

Electrically spun fabric offers dual defense against pregnancy, HIV

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Fibers stick to a hard surface (top) and then can be removed to create a hollow ring (bottom left). Bottom right shows a closeup of the...

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NASA Researchers Discover Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake

In one of the most remote lakes of Antarctica, nearly 65 feet beneath the icy surface, scientists from NASA, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nev., the University of Illinois at Chicago, and nine other institutions, have uncovered a...

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A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

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Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a super massive black hole in the core...

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Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing, Study Finds

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The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of...

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Herschel Serves up Solar Systems with Extra Comets

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This artist's impression shows the orbits of planets and comets around the star 61 Vir, superimposed on a view from the...

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Swirling Storms on Saturn

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This image from NASA's Cassini mission was taken on Nov. 27, 2012, with Cassini's narrow-angle camera.

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Proving quantum computers feasible: With a new contribution to probability theory, researchers show that relatively simple physical systems could yield powerful quantum computers

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The possible quantum states of a chain of particles can be represented as points in space, with lines connecting states that can be swapped...

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NIST experiments challenge fundamental understanding of electromagnetism

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Observations made with NIST's Electron Beam Ion Trap indicate that in ions with a strongly positive charge, electrons can behave in ways...

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