In a study published in the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences the week of Nov. 6, the research team measured organic particles produced from the…
At the end of 2004 they reached their objective and set their division in motion: Cassini, constructed by the NASA, heavier (6 tons), will orbit around the…
Open Access is a policy that could revolutionize the academic publishing world and have a great impact on research. By changing the traditional model of…
Electronic effects in thin films and at interfaces lie at the heart of modern solid-state electronic technology. As device dimensions shrink toward the…
It looks like lather under an electron microscope: American researchers have successfully produced porous, nanoscopic, hollow platinum spheres by using…
Sandia's Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.The…
According to a team of researchers from the United States and the Netherlands, led by a physicist from the University of Pennsylvania, DNA is much more…
Scientists working in the emerging field of nanotechnology, which is finding commercial applications for ultra-small material objects, believe that this newly…
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way, the galaxy to which our Solar System belongs. It is located extremely close by…
Researchers at the University of Bath, UK, and in Spain have said they have found a way to control the flow of terahertz radiation down a metal wire. Their…
The delegates from the Tata Institute are in Leicester to discuss the final stages of the design and to bring the Leicester team up-to-date on the status of…
Disharmony in the desertMost controversies in science focus on the big questions of our existence – like the nature of matter or the fate of the Universe. But…
The satellite was renamed ‘Hinode’ which is Japanese for Sunrise, which is most appropriate since Hinode will watch at close hand massively explosive solar…
Nevertheless, such important contributions to science and mankind have only been possible as result of regular upgrades and enhancements to Hubble’s…
“We have taken the first step towards a novel treatment for cancer. The results show that antiprotons are four times more effective than protons at terminating…
OSIRIS would return a pristine sample of a scientifically priceless asteroid to Earth in 2017. Regents' Professor and UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL)…
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