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This 3-D view of the surface rupture of the April 4, 2010, El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake (red line) reveals a new fault line connecting the Gulf of California with the Elsinore fault, which could become a major part of the boundary between the Pacific and the North America Plates.

The three pillars of Synthetic Biology according to the European Conference on Synthetic Biology.

IntraLinks' community-building efforts permit the user base to interact by maintaining profiles, contact lists and analytics regarding opportunities to participate in upcoming projects.

XSEDE will create immersive 3D simulations like this one of a blowout similar to that which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico where "ribbons" of color indicate flows.

We're in a situation, in which science has virtually died in the United States, and in Europe. The scientific technology is being destroyed, and therefore, we're in a situation in which we have to, by other means, revive and maintain physical science and its related things.

This artist's concept illustrates the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by WISE. The asteroid is gray and its extreme orbit is shown in green.

The authentication microchip market is small today, but will grow rapidly in a diverse anti-counterfeiting market expected to be worth $6 billion by 2016.

The "W-Ink" technology has only become possible due to a seamless fusion and interaction between chemistry, optics, condensed matter, and fluidics. (A) In the prototype device discussed in JACS, the chip appears blank in the air. When dipped in varying concentrations of ethanol, however, it reveals new markings. (B) Because all liquids exhibit a surface tension, this indicator has the potential to be used to differentiate between liquids of any type.

Big server farms are a major consumer of electricity in the United States. Using their heat to warm homes and offices could cut costs and save energy.

Burning patterns into graphite oxide with a laser turns the thin sheets into fully functional supercapacitors, according to a new paper by Rice University scientists in Nature Nanotechnology.