Customizing 3D Printing – New System Automatically Turns CAD Files into Visual Models
A new Web-based interface allows a wide range of modifications to basic designs that are printable on a 3-D printer, allowing novices to do in…
A new Web-based interface allows a wide range of modifications to basic designs that are printable on a 3-D printer, allowing novices to do in…
New fossil evidence reveals that turtles share a recent common ancestor with birds and crocodiles. There’s a twist in the turtle timeline. Thanks to new…
What Happened to the Early Mars’ Atmosphere? A newly published study looks to answer this question and eliminate one possible theory. Scientists may be closer…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveals a higher-than-expected temperature in one section of Saturn’s rings, providing a unique window into the interior structure of ring particles not…
Using the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope, astronomers get one of the best pictures ever taken of the stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula (also known as…
A newly published study shows how Brazilian wasp venom selectively kills cancer cells without harming normal cells. The social wasp Polybia paulista protects itself against…
New calculations from theoretical physicists at Rice University show it may be possible to guide the formation of 2D boron by tailoring boron-metal interactions. Rice…
The Zero Knowledge Warhead Verification Program aims to identify nuclear weapons while protecting secret information. “Energy is incredibly fundamental to life,” MIT graduate student Ruaridh…
Soyuz TMA-18M successfully launched with its three crew members representing Russia, Denmark and Kazakhstan. They are headed to the International Space Station to provide a…
Comet Hitchhiker is in Phase I study through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. Its goal is to use the kinetic energy of comets and…
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shares an image of Earth from the International Space Station. Earth’s thin atmosphere stands out against the blackness of space in…
New research suggests that magnesium peroxide may be abundant in extremely oxidized mantles and cores of rocky planets outside our Solar System. As astronomers continue…
Using an artificially constructed atom, known as a semiconductor quantum dot, a team of physicists has successfully demonstrated the squeezing of individual light particles. A…
Geologists discovered the fossils of Pentecopterus in a meteorite crater by the Upper Iowa River in northeastern Iowa. You don’t name a sea creature after…
In a newly published study, a team of researchers show that blocking amygdala cells’ interactions with serotonin after trauma may prevent post-traumatic stress disorder. About…
NASA researchers are using the International Space Station to examine biological systems in space and are searching for the best methods for keeping astronauts healthy…
Engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have developed innovative flat, optical lenses that are capable of manipulating light in…
Scientists at Harvard have developed the first model of solid tumor growth that reflects both shape and growth. They’re among the most powerful tools for…