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Plants such as corn (left) use photosynthesis to convert sunlight and water into fuel in a manner similar to using photovoltaic cells (right) to drive electrolysis that splits off the hydrogen from water for fuel.

Simulated ocean salinity data for NASA's Aquarius instrument. Image

Soon after the Libyan crisis broke, decision-makers and humanitarian workers faced a critical challenge: lack of information about events inside the country.

Fusion experiments, like this one National Ignition Facility at LLNL, previously required complex and expensive equipment. The software updates will allow for accurate computer simulations of these experiments.

This fall will see the adoption and increased widespread use of new technologies that will alter the way enterprise computing is accomplished. Some of these technologies come from the consumer technology side of the business, some are grown from labs, and some are the result of integrating existing technologies. Check out our top five picks for technologies that will change the game in enterprise computing.

Boeing today announced it has completed delivery of six F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircrew and maintenance trainers to the Royal Australian Air Force at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.

Consumer Reports retested the Apple iPhone 4, this time with a “bumper” case on it, and found the bumper fixed the smartphone’s antenna issues. Still, the magazine said it was up to Apple, not consumers, to pay for such a fix.

Faint dust plumes bookend asteroid (596) Scheila, which is overexposed in this composite. Visible and ultraviolet images from Swift's UVOT (circled) are merged with a Digital Sky Survey image of the same region. The UVOT images were acquired on Dec. 15, 2010, when the asteroid was about 232 million miles from Earth.

Voyager: Humanity's Farthest Journey

Mission team members discuss the past and future of the Voyager
Interstellar Mission and the spacecrafts' path to the edge of the solar system.