NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East
Boston College researchers' unique nanostructure produces novel 'plasmonic halos': Nanoscopic microcavities offer newfound control in light filtering
Boston College researchers have constructed a unique nanostructure that exploits microcavity features to filter visible light into "...
The world’s first smartphone in Space ‘STRaND-1’ ready for launch
NASA'S Refueling Demonstration Proves Viability Of Satellite-Servicing Technologies
NASA has demonstrated robotic fluid transfer in space, an objective that will help inform the development of robotic technology to refuel satellites. The first-of-its-kind demonstration was performed during the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) aboard...
Earth-like Planets Are Right Next Door
This artist’s conception shows a hypothetical habitable planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have found...
The Wings of the Seagull Nebula
This new image from ESO shows a section of a cloud of dust and glowing gas called the Seagull Nebula. These wispy red clouds form...
Quantum Dots Assemble Themselves: Surprising breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics, solar cell efficiency
Quantum dots are tiny crystals of semiconductor a few billionths of a meter in diameter. At that size they exhibit beneficial behaviors of quantum physics such as forming electron-hole pairs and harvesting excess energy.
NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
At the center of this image from NASA's Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called "John Klein" where...
