Developing an improved liposuction technique that melts fat

Melting fat away could one day become a reality with a new liposuction technique now under development.
Titan Flybys Test the Talents of NASA's Cassini Team

Cassini will attempt to bounce signals off of Saturn's moon Titan once more during a flyby on June 18, 2014...
Soaring Over Lunar Mt. Hadley
Dynamic Spectroscopy Duo: 2D Electronic-Vibrational Spectroscopy Technique Provides Unprecedented Look into Photochemical Reactions

2D-EV spectral data tells researchers how photoexcitation of a molecular system affects the coupling of electronic and nuclear vibrations...
Move over, silicon, there's a new circuit in town

Hybrid CNT/IGZO circuits fabricated on a polyimide film laminated on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate
Nanoscale composites improve MRI: Rice, Methodist researchers merge magnetic particles to detect, fight disease

Submicrometer particles that contain even smaller particles of iron oxide could make magnetic resonance imaging a far more powerful tool to...
A virus reveals the physics of nanopores

A better way to study what actually happens at the nanopore
A computer simulation depicts an fd virus translocating through a...
NASA's Messenger Spots Giant Space Weather Effects at Mercury

The yellow color shows the standing bow shock in front of Mercury. The signature of material flowing in a vastly different direction...