Science

Smartphone Apps for Diabetes: Do They Really Work?

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Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers: Researchers from Denmark and Stanford show how to produce industrial quantities of hydrogen without emitting carbon into the atmosphere

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On the left, a scanning tunneling microscope image captures the bright shape of the moly sulfide nanocluster on a graphite surface. The grey...

Cooling Microprocessors with Carbon Nanotubes

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Cooling microprocessor chips through the combination of carbon nanotubes and organic molecules as bonding agents is a...

Molecules as circuits

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Researchers develop new method to control nanoscale diamond sensors: Technique allows tiny sensors to monitor small changes in magnetic fields, such as when neurons transmit electrical signals.

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A single nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center in diamond (right, inset), optically initialized and readout by confocal microscopy, is manipulated...

Rosetta: To Chase a Comet

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An artist's view of Rosetta, the European Space Agency's cometary probe with NASA contributions.

Production of Catalyst for Steam Reforming of Methane

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WB to Help Vietnam Provide Better Irrigation Services for Central and Northern Mountainous Region

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved new funding to improve irrigated agricultural production systems in selected Central coastal and Northern mountains provinces in Vietnam, which will help another 243,000 farming families with...