Science

New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars

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Artist rendition of the proposed InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat...

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In settlement papers filed in federal district court, three companies have agreed to pay about $29.8 million in cleanup costs for a Superfund site in Fairmont, Marion County, W. Va., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.

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This artist's rendition illustrates the formation of rocky bodies in the solar system - how they form and...

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Fantastic Phobos

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Phobos in 3D

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Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock

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This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam,...

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Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock

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This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam,...

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UCSB Researchers Demonstrate That 15=3x5 About Half of the Time

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The device used to run the first solid state demonstration of Shor's algorithm. It is made up of four phase qubits and five...

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Finding the nano-needle in the haystack

Nanotechnology can be used to improve the properties of commercial products, to kill bacteria, fight odours and more. But what happens when these products are discarded and these incomprehensibly small particles are released into the environment? Can...

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Constructive conflict in the superconductor: Charge density waves improve our understanding of the zero-resistance transport of electricity and could explain an unusual interplay of superconducting and magnetic materials

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have discovered charge density waves in ceramic yttrium and neodymium...

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