NASA 'HEROES' Set to Launch Balloon Solar/Space Imager

Diagram of an example flight profile is shown. It takes about 3 hours from launch for the payload to reach float (maximum altitude)....
NASA Invites Social Media Fans to Earth Science Event

This view of Earth comes from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard the Terra satellite.
Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material

This atomic force microscope image shows directed self-assembly of a printed line of block copolymer on a template prepared by...
Iranian Scientists Produce New DNA Genosensor
Take a Virtual Tour of Vesta With New High-Resolution Images

If you could drive a car around the giant Asteroid Vesta, you would need a road map akin to the atlas of images released...
Japan's New Rocket Lifts Off
Japan has launched a new rocket that it hopes will be a less expensive and more efficient way of sending satellites into space.
Molecules pass through nanotubes at size-dependent speeds

A diagram of one of the group's experimental setups shows a copper plate that can be heated using a torch underneath it, to study the...
New system uses nanodiamonds to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to brain tumors

These images show the retention of doxorubicin and ND-DOX in brain tissue, with light microscopic images (upper rows) and fluorescence...