Science

NASA Rover's First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals

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First X-ray View of Martian Soil
This graphic shows results of the first...

NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars' Atmosphere

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This picture shows a lab demonstration of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser...

In-sync Brain Waves Hold Memory of Objects Just Seen

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brain visual working memory circuit holds information in mind about what has just been seen. It...

NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP Captures Night-time View of Sandy's Landfall

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A Hint of Hawaii in the Sands of Mars

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The first x-ray crystallography view of Martian soil. Obtained by the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin)...

Folding Funnels Key to Biomimicry: Berkeley Lab Finding that Protein Folding Funnels Also Apply to Self-Assembly Should Benefit Biomimicry and Nanosynthesis

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AFM micrograph of 2D S-layers assembled on mica shows two different pathways to crystalization, one in which the domans are 2-3 nanometers...

Stanford scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell

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This shows the new all-carbon solar cell consists of a photoactive layer, which absorbs sunlight, sandwiched between two electrodes.

Dust's Warming Counters Half of its Cooling Effect

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Before (left) and after (right) photos of the study site in Zhangye, China, show the magnitude of the May 2008...