The new technique has advantages over traditional methods of detection: unlike x-rays that are currently used in airport security, it can distinguish between…
Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, is no more visible for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. It does put an impressive show in the South however and…
Scientists of the Biophysical Engineering Group of the University of Twente in The Netherlands have developed an ultrasensitive sensor that can be used in a…
NASA is poised to launch on Feb. 15 five identical space probes – the largest number of spacecraft ever attempted by the agency on a single rocket – to solve a…
Led by Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering at Princeton, the team worked to troubleshoot one form of nanoimprint lithography, a…
The Cyphochilus beetle has a highly unusual brilliant white shell. New research by the University of Exeter and Imerys Minerals Ltd. and published in leading…
By learning more about the microscopic structure and physics of clouds, scientists are now better able to predict how the climate will respond. This research…
This unusual event is allowing astronomers to probe for even fainter objects and may give them a glimpse of matter disappearing into the massive black hole at…
The Institute’s President, Peter Saraga, will make a presentation to each of the winners, photographs of which will be available following the event. The…
The behavior of water when placed in contact with hydrophobic (water-repellent) surfaces, such as raincoats and freshly waxed cars, has puzzled scientists for…
BAS announced the Clock change today at an unprecedented joint news conference held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington,…
These are some of the many questions posed by José Miguel Vílchez González in his thesis Física y Dibujos Animados. “Una estrategia de alfabetización…
Merlijn Hajenius developed these sensors for Delft University of Technology's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, in close cooperation with the SRON Netherlands…
The infrared camera will sit at the focal point of VISTA – a UK provided survey telescope being constructed in Chile for ESO, the Organisation for Astronomical…
In collaboration with scientists from the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health, the team is working to harness the reaction to develop a…
Understanding the electronic and geometric structures of gold nanoclusters is a key step towards understanding their behavior under different conditions, such…
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