Ballistic transport in graphene suggests new type of electronic device
This is a conceptual drawing of an electronic circuit comprised of interconnected graphene nanoribbons (black atoms) that are epitaxially...
Sun Emits Mid-Level Solar Flare
A mid-level solar flare erupted on the sun late on Feb. 3, 2014, peaking at midnight EST. This image...
New Animals on Display at Spitzer's Citizen Science Zoo
A screen shot from the Milky Way Project illustrates how users are asked to catalog objects in our galaxy...
In vitro innovation: Testing nanomedicine with blood cells on a microchip
This is a schematic of an endothelialized microfluidic device that consists of two-layer microfluidic channels that are separated by a...
Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers
A close-up of an elastic polymer that was cut in two and healed overnight.
Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet
This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red...
NASA's SDO Sees Lunar Transit
A rainbow of lunar transits as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The...
NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries
Herbig-Haro 30 is the prototype of a gas-rich "young stellar object" disk around a star. The dark disk spans 40 billion...
