NASA's Dawn's Spacecraft Views Dark Side of Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on...
A Physical Route to Highly Crystalline Graphene
Google Stages E-mail Intervention After Microsoft Gmail Man Strikes
Google and Microsoft have just completed another salvo in their ongoing Web-based e-mail war.
Encouraging News on the Scientific Front; Moving It Forward to Policy and Programs
For those of us who have been working in this field for some time — which in my case is about 30 years — the mood in Rome was positive, with a palpable sense of encouragement. This was largely fueled by two things: new evidence of the long-term...
Gig.U to Extend LAN Speed Among Schools
Universities nationwide have signed onto Gig.U by soliciting ideas for how to extend gigabit per second local-area network speeds over...
Smarter Robots to Inspect Aging Nukes
A spherical robot equipped with a camera is being proposed to navigate underground pipes at nuclear reactors to locate potential...
U.S. Renewables Outpace Nuclear Power
Renewable energy passed that of nuclear power in March 2011 (in quadrillion BTUs).
Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water
This artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole...
