Hidden Wildfires Taking Big Toll on Amazon Rainforest
Researchers for the first time mapped the extent and frequency of understory fires across a study area (green)...
NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms and Climate Mix
Cassini Sees Precursors to Aerosol Haze on Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's largest moon and sees sunlight scattering through...
NASA Spacecraft Sees Tornado's Destructive Swath
The Newcastle-Moore EF-5 tornado ripped through central Oklahoma on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people and leaving behind...
Metamaterial Flexible Sheets Could Transform Optics: New design flattens bulky optical devices
(a) Photograph of an ultrathin (72 µm thick) metamaterial sample. (b) Illustration of how the metamaterial redirects an electromagnetic wave...
Spintronics approach enables new quantum technologies
This artist’s rendering shows all-optical control of an individual electronic spin within a diamond. This spin is associated with a...
Ten years at Mars: new global views plot the Red Planet’s history
Mars Express mission highlights.
Hubble Sees the Messy Result of a Galactic Collision
