NASA’s SOFIA Finds Missing Link Between Supernovae and Planet Formation

SOFIA data reveal warm dust (white) surviving inside a supernova remnant. The SNR Sgr A East cloud is traced in X-rays (blue). Radio...
New Tech = Faster, Better Dental Work

The Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Machining fabricator designs a molar for tooth...
Clean energy future: New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water

A scanning electron microscope image shows the porous structure of the nickel foam used to make UNSW Australia's inexpensive and efficient...
Data structures influence speed of quantum search in unexpected ways: Highly connected structures don't always support fastest quantum computing

Quantum search slows unexpectedly on the highly connected data structure represented by this graph. Mathematical description: a 5-simplex...
Nano piano's lullaby could mean storage breakthrough

Arrays of gold, pillar-supported bowtie nanoantennas can be used to record distinct musical notes, in this case, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little...
UK skies set to dim in decade’s deepest solar eclipse

The partial phase of the total eclipse of 2006, rotated to match the...
New technology may double radio frequency data capacity: Columbia engineers invent nanoscale IC that enables simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio

CoSMIC (Columbia high-Speed and Mm-wave IC) Lab full-duplex transceiver IC that can be implemented in nanoscale CMOS to enable simultaneous...
NASA Spacecraft in Earth’s Orbit, Preparing to Study Magnetic Reconnection

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard launches from the Cape...