Science

Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up By Black-hole Mischief

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Immunomodulatory effect of nanoparticles

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NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole

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NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive...

NRL Researchers Discover New Route to Spin-Polarized Contacts on Silicon

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NRL scientists successfully used graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice (gray), as a tunnel barrier to electrically...

Scientists Determine Mechanical Properties of Bone Cement by Nanotechnology

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Quasar May Be Embedded in Unusually Dusty Galaxy

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This artist's impression of one of the most distant, oldest, brightest quasars ever seen is hidden...

Active Region on the Sun Emits Another Flare

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By observing the sun in a number of different wavelengths, NASA's...

Feeling the Force of Cancer

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Using ARTIDIS to feel the tissue structure of a tumor biopsy by a nanometer-sized atomic force microscope tip