Turning waste into power with bacteria — and loofahs
Loofahs, thanks to their large pores, have emerged as a potential new tool to advance sustainability efforts on two fronts at the same time...
Curing Cancer with Magnetic Nanoparticles
Iron particles inside a tumor spin in an alternating magnetic field, generating enough heat to cook the cancer.
A Fiery Drama of Star Birth and Death
Comet ISON: has this lonely traveller reached the end of its journey?
An image of Comet ISON, captured by the Hubble Telescope
A new simulatable model displaying exotic quantum phenomena: Scientists at MPQ develop a new model for realizing the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in lattice systems
Illustration of the lattice model where each particle is either in a ‘spin up’ or a ‘spin down’ state.
Antibacterial Nanocomposites Produced from Offset Lithography Inks
Cluster takes a tilt at radio wave sources
A new study using ESA's Cluster mission has shown improved precision in determining the source of a radio emission produced by the Earth. The experiment involved tilting one of the four identical Cluster spacecraft to measure the electric field of...
Scientists Seek Other Scientists for Cosmology Problem
Can you match each galaxy in the top row with its warped counterpart in the bottom row? For example, is the warped...
