Science

Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole Out Of Galactic Core

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Hubble Discovery of Runaway Star Yields Clues to Breakup of Multiple-Star System

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New Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula

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In the search for rogue planets and failed stars astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have created a new...

Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time

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New research using observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates that Arsia Mons, one of the largest...

Next-gen steel under the microscope

Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The old and the new bridge, as seen at night from Yerba Buena Island to Oakland (mid-September 2013). The inset in the top left hand corner shows V Vanadium and 2H, Deuterium a hydrogen isotope (1...

Electro-optical switch transmits data at record-low temperatures: Operating at temperatures near absolute zero, switch could enable significantly faster data processing with lower power consumption

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This is an illustration of a silicon photonic micro-disk modulator operating at cryogenic temperatures. Light traveling down the silicon...

Block copolymer micellization as a protection strategy for DNA origami

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DNA origami.

NASA Studying Shared Venus Science Objectives with Russian Space Research Institute

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he Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute (IKI) Venera-D mission concept includes a Venus...