The eyes of moths, which allow them to see well at night, are also covered with a water-repellent, antireflective coating that makes their eyes among the least…
In contrast to the quasi-crystals previously documented, which can only be produced under special laboratory conditions, they are simply structured polymers…
Physicists and bioengineers have developed an optical instrument allowing them to control the behavior of a worm just by shining a tightly focused beam of…
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human…
The matter that makes up the universe consists of particles such as electrons and protons, as well as their counterparts known as antiparticles. Particles and…
Most of our Universe consists of hydrogen atoms, which are often found under extraordinarily high pressure as high as tens of millions of times the atmospheric…
In a new study of laboratory and satellite data, researchers report a lower value of that energy, known as total solar irradiance, than previously measured and…
The scientists reported on the first successful approach to synthesizing ultrabright fluorescent mesoporous silica nanoparticles this fall in the leading…
The discovery is of special interest because it represents a rare case in which a research team was able to make an independent age determination of the planet…
M82 is a so-called starburst galaxy, where stars are forming at rates that are tens or even hundreds of times higher than in a normal galaxy. The burst of star…
“We've been on the trail of a state of matter called a half-quantum vortex for more than three years,” said Budakian. “First proposed in the 1970s to exist in…
In a presentation at the American Astronomical Society meeting this week and a related paper in the current issue of the journal Nature, researchers say that…
The Crab Nebula, once considered to be a source of energy so stable that astronomers used it to calibrate their instruments, is dimming. LSU physicists Mike…
These supernovae are currently the best way to measure dark energy because they are visible across intergalactic space. Also, they can function as “standard…
The protocluster of very early galaxies is centered on a source dubbed AzTEC 3, after the millimeter-wave instrument that first saw it. The full collection of…
To understand the root of the problem of these latter diseases, visualizing brain activity is key. But even the best imaging devices available — fMRIs and PET…
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