Science

Images From NASA Mars Rover Include Bright Spots

This image from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes a bright spot near the upper left...

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Global Recovery Offers Opportunity for Growth and Policy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa

The World Bank Group’s latest regional economic update projects growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to accelerate from an average of 2.6% in 2013 to 4.6% in 2015. With the global economy set for a rebound, 2014 seems hopeful and...

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Rebar technique strengthens case for graphene: Rice University lab makes hybrid nanotube-graphene material that promises to simplify manufacturing

Carbon nanotubes that serve as reinforcing bars in graphene partially unzip in the process created at Rice University. The unzipped part of...

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Trees go high-tech: process turns cellulose into energy storage devices

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To bridge LEDs' green gap, scientists think small... really small: Nanostructures half a DNA strand-wide show promise for efficient LEDs

This simulation of a one-nanometer wide Indium Nitride wire shows the distribution of an electron around a positively charged 'hole.'...

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Quantum Photon Properties Revealed in Another Particle—the Plasmon

An artist's representation of a plasmonic waveguide.

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Europe lofts first Copernicus environmental satellite

The ability of European citizens, policymakers and service providers to access key environmental data on a routine basis will take a major step forward following the launch of ESA’s Sentinel-1A satellite.

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The sky is the limit? Europe’s aviation market takes off

Flight movements across Europe.