Creating Electricity with Caged Atoms
Clathrates: crytals enclosing single atoms
Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent for 2013
Scientists watch from the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy as it cuts through multiyear sea ice in the...
Densest array of carbon nanotubes grown to date: New technique could one day help improve the performance of microelectronics in devices ranging from batteries to spacecraft
Scanning electron microscope images are of CNT forests with low and high density.
NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars
This picture shows a lab demonstration of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an...
Young Stars Cooking in the Prawn Nebula
The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in this new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. Taken...
Container's material properties affect the viscosity of water at the nanoscale: Glass or plastic?
This illustration shows how the different effective viscosity of water affects the force required to slide two surfaces separated by a thin...
In water as in love, likes can attract
This model of the guanidinium chloride salt (blue and silver) in solution shows carbon (yellow) and water (green) surrounding the cations...
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)....
