Science

NASA Completes LADEE Mission with Planned Impact on Moon's Surface

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An artist's concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft seen orbiting...

UT Arlington physicist creates new nanoparticle for cancer therapy

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This figure from the paper shows the X-ray destruction of human breast cancer cells using Cu-Cy particles. The images show the live cancer...

Scientists Capture Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-Driven Superconductivity: X-rays reveal how rapidly vanishing 'charge stripes' may be behind laser-induced high-temperature superconductivity

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In equilibrium (top), the charge stripe "ripples" run perpendicular to each other between the copper-oxide layers of the material. When a...

A Study in Scarlet

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This new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile reveals a cloud of hydrogen called Gum 41. In the middle of this little-...

NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and tracks from its driving are visible in this view from orbit, acquired on April 11, 2014,...

Nanocrystalline cellulose modified into an efficient viral inhibitor

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Ari Hinkkanen and Janne Ruotsalainen, University of Eastern Finland, and Aalto University

Engineers develop new materials for hydrogen storage

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The researchers have created for the first time compounds made from mixtures of calcium hexaboride, strontium and barium hexaboride. The...

Scientists open door to better solar cells, superconductors and hard-drives: Research enhances understanding of materials interfaces

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Left: If the lanthanum aluminate layer (blue) is less than three unit cells, the electrons redistribute in sub-layers. Right: If the layer...