Scientists Use ‘Smart Window’ to Observe Lithium-Ion Battery Operation
By using ultrathin sheets of smart-window material, nickel oxide, as the anode in a lithium-ion battery, researchers were able to see for the first time…
By using ultrathin sheets of smart-window material, nickel oxide, as the anode in a lithium-ion battery, researchers were able to see for the first time…
Using the Altair adaptive optics system with the Gemini North Telescope, two NOAO astronomers were able to observe the shell of escaping material around the…
By comparing the predictions of state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations with the results of sophisticated statistical analyses of the cosmic background radiation, two independent studies are challenging…
In a newly published study, MIT researchers show that a new gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse a rare liver disorder caused by a…
Using time-resolved measurement and active feed forward, researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China have entangled two independent photons of different colors…
A new study by NSIDC and NASA researchers reveals that length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each…
New computer simulations show that the unusually hydrogen-rich apatite crystals observed in many lunar rock samples may not have formed within a water-rich environment, revealing…
By combining many individual images in the ESO archive, this new image shows NGC 1316 and its smaller neighbor NGC 1317. This new image from…
Researchers use the scientific imaging system on board ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft to get the first glimpse of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A little more than four months…
Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered huge young star clusters around a black hole in the center of galaxy NGC 2110. Huge young…
Biomedical engineers from Duke University have grown living skeletal muscle that demonstrates the ability to heal itself both inside the laboratory and inside an animal….
This new image of an X-class solar flare was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 29, 2014. The sun emitted a significant solar…
In a newly published study, an international team of researchers detail how they discovered that a nanoparticle trapped with laser light temporarily violates the second…
A new three-minute ScienceCast video previews the April 14th close approach of Mars, when Earth and Mars are at their minimum distance from each other….
Scientists have developed a new method for analyzing the pressure experienced by tiny samples of organic material that may have been ejected from dying stars,…
Released to the public today, this new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1084. In this new Hubble image, we can see an almost face-on…
Using gravitational lensing, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics measured the spectra of carbon, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and water in a galaxy seen a…
A recently held symposium by the HMS Department of Genetics asked experts to consider how genetic research can help people colonize other planets. If you…