An older technology once de rigueur for preventing spacecraft gadgetry from getting too hot or too cold has been resurrected and repurposed for an emerging class of small satellites now playing an increasingly larger role in space exploration, technology demonstration, and scientific research.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreResearchers make ultra-low-cost, easy to fabricate 'lasing capsules' with an inkjet printer.
May 3rd, 2016
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Chemists have developed a new tool that allows scientists for the first time to see nanoscale mixing processes occurring in liquids.
May 3rd, 2016
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No one has yet detected the quantum physical effect of entanglement directly with the naked eye. This should now be possible thanks to an experiment proposed by a team of physicists.
May 3rd, 2016
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A clean, climate-friendly energy source that is virtually inexhaustible: This is the promise artificial photosynthesis holds. Chemists have now got one step closer to reaching this goal.
May 3rd, 2016
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An international team of researchers monitors the steps of a chemical reaction mediated by a metallic surface.
May 3rd, 2016
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Water droplets defy predictions, potentially offering insights to everything from fire-retardant fabrics to fuel cells.
May 3rd, 2016
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Refined insights into critical ionic interactions with nature's building blocks.
May 3rd, 2016
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New drug-delivery approach holds potential for treating obesity.
May 3rd, 2016
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Scientists have developed a new, simple and quick way to make any number microlasers on a single structure.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreA compilation of recommendations from a 2015 workshop organized by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. appears in a report in Archives of Toxicology.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreScientists have developed a new method that has enabled them to image magnetic fields on the nanometer scale at temperatures close to absolute zero for the first time. They used spins in special diamonds as quantum sensors in a new kind of microscope to generate images of magnetic fields in superconductors with unrivalled precision.
May 3rd, 2016
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The prototype device is made of tiny charged particles of gold, bound together with temperature-responsive polymers in the form of a gel.
May 3rd, 2016
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Using an ultra fast-scanning atomic force microscope, researchers have filmed 'living' nuclear pore complexes at work for the first time.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreCovalently bonded, single-molecule-thick layer prevents phosphorene from degrading in open air.
May 3rd, 2016
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Researchers have created a new sensor technology that captures nanoscale images with high spatial resolution and sensitivity.
May 3rd, 2016
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