This Star Cluster Is Not What It Seems

This new image from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile shows a vast collection of stars, the...
Rice chemist wins rare NSF Special Creativity Award: Grant extension will bolster Zubarev's effort to produce gold nanorods

Because gold nanorods are longer than they are wide, 3-D nanorod supercrystals have "anisotropic" properties, which means they have a...
Light detector to revolutionise night vision technology

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Scientists Find Evidence of 'Diving' Tectonic Plates on Europa

Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. This conceptual illustration of...
Bright Clumps in Saturn Ring Now Mysteriously Scarce
Cassini spied just as many regular, faint clumps in Saturn's narrow F ring, like those pictured here, as Voyager did, but it saw...
New piezoelectrical positioning system for microscope revolver MIPOS R120
Banked blood grows stiffer with age, study finds

Map of membrane fluctuations in a normal red blood cell, on average up to 50 nanometers. Measuring these fluctuations over time,...
Newly-Developed Nanosensor Controls Amount of Edible Dyes in Foodstuff Products