Science

The Submillimeter Array: Celebrating a Decade of Discovery

2014-16_0.jpg

Full Story »
One step to solar-cell efficiency: Rice University researchers’ chemical process may improve manufacturing

49696.jpg
Rice University scientists have reduced to one step the process to turn silicon wafers into the black silicon used in solar cells. The...

Full Story »
Time to think big: a call for a giant space telescope

Barstow_20m_under_construction_small.png
An artist’s concept of the ATLAST telescope under construction in space. This...

Full Story »
Changing Composition of Nanofibers Results in Treatment of Scars, Deep Wound

49695.jpg

Full Story »
New Los Alamos Approach May Be Key to Quantum Dot Solar Cells With Real Gains in Efficiency: Nanoengineering Boosts Carrier Multiplication in Quantum Dots

49686.jpg
Core/shell PbSe/CdSe quantum dots (a) and a carrier multiplication (CM) pathway (b) in these nano structures. (a) Transmission electron...

Full Story »
Nanion Technologies and Axion Biosystems Announce Strategic Distribution Partnership in Europe and China

49687.jpg

Full Story »
Mapping Out our Magnificent Brain

SUBNET_Final_1-450x350.jpg
DARPA’s SUBNETS program seeks new neurotechnology for analyzing neuronal activity across sub-networks of...

Full Story »
NASA's Hubble to Begin Search Beyond Pluto for a New Horizons Mission Target

hs-2014-29-a-large_web_0.jpg
This is an artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object — a...

Full Story »