A Big Step Forward for Nuclear Fusion Power
ITER researchers working to help bring fusion power to the commercial market completed a critical step this week, successfully testing their technology that serves to…
ITER researchers working to help bring fusion power to the commercial market completed a critical step this week, successfully testing their technology that serves to…
Using computer simulations and mathematical models, scientists developed a new theoretical model on the evolution of cooperation, finding that direct reciprocity alone is not enough,…
Using X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio observations from the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers studied two black hole…
Scientists at Harvard Medical School developed algorithms that allowed them to use evolution as their guide to deduce the three-dimensional structure of 18 families of…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…
As computer chips continue to shrink, developers are reaching the limits on how small they can make patterns for wires. A team of researchers at…
A newly published study describes the experiment scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute used to demonstrate that light can have both an electric and a…
New research from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory shows that high-quality gallium indium phosphide (GaInP) cells produce useful solar power underwater, with initial results at…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one and now astronomers from Penn State have precisely…
Scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Palermo examined a weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy ships in the…
A new study from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine indicates that an imbalance between neuronal excitation and inhibition is a common abnormality…
In an effort to better understand ocean acidification and the effects of climate change on coral reefs, an international team of scientists has created a…
Many people enjoy touch-screen devices because of their simplicity and speed, but a team of researchers found that using them to play games developed for…
As scientists continue to review data from NASA’s dawn Mission, a new video adds color to highlight differences in surface composition that are too subtle…
In case you missed it, here is video footage of the 2012 Venus transit from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Launched on February 11, 2010, the…
A new paper by 22 international scientists describes the need for better predictive models based on detailed understandings of how the biosphere reacted in the…
In an effort to remove human error and fatigue from security surveillance, researchers at MIT have created a new approach using mathematics. The system can…
New research shows that disc-shaped nanoparticles created with photolithographic technology will allow researchers to specify the size, shape, and surface properties of the nanoparticles, while…