NASA's K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet'
In this artist's conception, a tiny rocky object vaporizes as it orbits a white dwarf star. Astronomers have...
Borneo on Fire
The worst forest fires in nearly two decades are burning out of control on Borneo, creating the thick blanket of smoke in...
Manipulating wrinkles could lead to graphene semiconductors
Schematic of the work The tip of the scanning tunneling microscope (in yellow-orange) is moved over the graphene and the nanowrinkle.
Capacitor breakthrough: Nanotechnology offers new approach to increasing storage ability of dielectric capacitors
This is a diagram of the dielectric capacitor research developed by a University of Delaware-led research team.
ING Telescopes Provide Unique Observations in Support of the ESA Rosetta Mission
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission is currently exploring comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, returning incredible views of this tiny frozen world. The Rosetta mission is a hugely ambitious endeavour – the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and...
Capacitor breakthrough: Nanotechnology offers new approach to increasing storage ability of dielectric capacitors
While the flux capacitor still conjures sci-fi images, capacitors are now key components of portable electronics, computing systems, and electric vehicles.
Biosensors; New Option to Diagnose Leukemia
Iranian researchers from Tarbiat Modarres University designed a biosensor that enables the early diagnosis of leukemia in the test sample by using naked eyes. The biosensors have been produced at low cost, and they enjoy high sensitivity, selectivity...
NASA Calls for American Industry Ideas on ARM Spacecraft Development
NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has issued a call to American industry for innovative ideas on how the agency could obtain a core advanced solar electric propulsion-based spacecraft to support the Asteroid...
