A Celestial Witch’s Broom?
The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is...
Nuclear Power: Extracting Uranium from Seawater
The material, HiCap (from high-capacity), outperforms today's adsorbents, which perform surface retention of solid or gas molecules, atoms...
Non-Cytotoxic Nanosilver Structures Bring New Hope for Curing Infections
The obtained nanostructure is nontoxic to human cells, in contrast to the conventional silver nanoparticles, and possesses a spectacularly...
Hubble Spotted a Supernova in NGC 5806
Hubble sees a supernova explosion called SN 2004dg on the edge of NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in...
Improved nanoparticles deliver drugs into brain
Real-time imaging of a rodent brain shows that nanoparticles coated with polyethylene-glycol (PEG) (green) penetrate farther within the...
New Method for Synthesis of Noble Metal-Based Nanoparticles on Various Substrates
Particularly tested for carbon based substrates such as carbon nanocabon tubes, the proposed method has enabled the synthesis of platinum-...
Kepler's Supernova Remnant: Was Kepler's Supernova Unusually Powerful?
In 1604, a new star appeared in the night sky that was much brighter than Jupiter and dimmed over several weeks. This...
NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars
Observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have detected carbon-dioxide snow clouds on Mars and evidence of...
