Science

All systems go at the biofactory

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The finely honed tip of the atomic force microscope (AFM) allows one to pick up single biomolecules and deposit them elsewhere with...

Stretchable conductors created using CNT fibers

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Now, researchers have reported, for the first time, the fabrication of CNT-fiber-based stretchable conductors by a simple prestraining-then...

Nanofibre morphology control

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In newly published research, Kunio Kimura and colleagues report that the morphology of poly(p-oxybenzoyl) precipitates formed by the co-...

The Rich Colours of a Cosmic Seagull

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This new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows part of a stellar nursery nicknamed the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of...

Gas Detecting Nanosensors Synthesized through Polymerization of Pyrrole

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Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target

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This image combines photographs taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) at three different distances from the...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Explores the Moon in 3-D

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Janssen K is a roughly 12-kilometer-diameter crater on the floor of the large...

Hubble portrays a dusty spiral galaxy

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Hubble portrays a dusty spiral...