National Space Club Honors Kepler's Planet Hunters
The Kepler-16 system is home to the first confirmed transiting circumbinary planet-- a planet that orbits...
NASA Mars Orbiter Examines Dramatic New Crater
A dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)...
Inner workings of a cellular nanomotor revealed
In this rendering of the SecA nanomotor, the two pistons (coloured cyan and light green) await the arrival of a protein. Cylinders, arrows...
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.
