Science

NASA Eyes on Earth Aid Response to Carolina Flooding

It was rain that wouldn't quit. A weather system fueled by warm moisture streaming in from the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 3 and 4 relentlessly dumped between 1 and 2 feet (0.3 and 0.6 meters) of rain across most of South Carolina. The result was rivers...

NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars

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A view from the "Kimberley" formation on Mars taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the...

Revisiting the Veil Nebula

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope imaged three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula in 1997. Now, a stunning new set of...

Brightness-equalized quantum dots improve biological imaging

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Left: Conventional fluorescent materials like quantum dots and dyes have mismatched brightness between different colors. When these...

A necklace of fractional vortices

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A route to a time-reversal symmetry-broken state for d-wave superconductors is shown to occur via the formation of a necklace of fractional...

Scientists found a natural nanostructure to control the flow of light

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An illustration of optical catenaries for the OAM generation. When a light beam incident on the catenary structures, orbital angular...

Production of High Temperature Ceramics with Modified Properties in Iran

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Horizontal magnetic tunneling in a field-effect device integrated on Silicon

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