Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have developed the world’s most powerful terahertz quantum cascade laser, breaking the previous record held by the Massachusetts…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory and ALMA, researchers have discovered that the unusual disk around the star HD 21997 appears to contain both primordial gas…
A team of researchers from the Berkeley Lab have developed peptoid nanosheets that mimic the way natural antibodies recognize viruses and toxins. Taking inspiration from…
Researchers from the University of Sidney have developed a metamaterial lens that has ten times the resolution of any current lens. A lens with ten…
A James Cook University researcher has discovered three new vertebrate species in north-east Australia, a leaf-tail gecko, a golden-colored skink and a boulder-dwelling frog. A…
Three newly released images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show the remains of dying stars called planetary nebulas. In the spirit of Halloween, scientists are…
To celebrate and support American Archive Month, eight never-before-seen images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory archive have been released. Every year, October is designated as…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have demonstrated that graphene meets an important condition for use in novel lasers for terahertz pulses with long wavelengths,…
New research from UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine shows that dendrites actively process information, multiplying the brain’s computing power. Chapel Hill, North…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of scientists captured a detailed image of high-density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at…
Using planetary models based on measurements of our sun’s carbon-to-oxygen ratio, researchers found that planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans….
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers view the coldest known object in the Universe, the Boomerang Nebula. At a cosmologically crisp one degree…
UC San Diego cosmochemists demonstrated that a chemical reaction, governed by known physical principles, can generate silicate dust with oxygen anomalies that match those found…
A newly published study from researchers at Brown University shows the ability of carefully designed gold nanoparticles to recycle CO2 into useful forms of carbon….
NASA researchers are teaming up in the new collaborative program called The Frontier Fields to look deeper into the universe than ever before, working together…
Using Chandra high-resolution data collected from 1999 to 2011, astronomers reveal for the first time abrupt variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding…
Using porous silicon coated with graphene, material scientists at Vanderbilt University have developed the first supercapacitor that is made out of silicon. Solar cells that…
By replacing a flat surface with a surface that contained engineered nanoscale structures, researchers found that the Casimir attraction between two surfaces decreased much more…
