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By binding multiple molecules of Daunorubicin with nanodiamonds, scientists from NUS and UCLA managed to boost the delivery of the drug to leukemic cells and retain the drug within the cells to combat the cancer.

This image illustrates how researchers use an airbrush to grow vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. Click to enlarge.

Solar Flares captured by GOES 15 SXI.

With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that what was thought to be a large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet.

The hope is that through building intelligent machines, we can better understand ourselves.

The process of selecting a site for NASA's next landing on Mars, planned for September 2016, has narrowed to four semifinalist sites located close together in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. The mission known by the acronym InSight will study the Red Planet's interior, rather than surface features, to advance understanding of the processes that formed and shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system, including Earth.

Researchers simulate electrical resistances (lines) to match experimental data (points) and extract the contact resistance.

Vikas Berry, William H. Honstead professor of chemical engineering, and his research team have studied a new three-atom-thick material -- molybdenum disulfide -- and found that manipulating it with gold atoms improves its electrical characteristics.

Astronomers have used ESO's New Technology Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to explore more than 100 planetary nebulae in the central bulge of our galaxy. They have found that butterfly-shaped members of this cosmic family tend to be mysteriously aligned — a surprising result given their different histories and varied properties.