James Webb Space Telescope Testing To Find Infrared Light A human's normal body temperature is 98.6F, radiating strongly in the MIRI spectral range, near a 10...
When It Comes To Metal, Smaller Is Stronger: Now Scientists Know Why Compression of a nickel pillar whose free end has a diameter of about 150 nanometers....
Ultra High Speed Internet On The Horizon ScienceDaily (Jan. 2, 2008) - The ultra-high data speeds possible on optical fibre networks will only come into their...
Plate tectonics may take a break Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may...
Life at the jolt: New insights into fuel cell that uses bacteria to generate electricity Bacteria have evolved to utilize almost any chemical as a food source....
Mobile metal atoms Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods-the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion...
A crystal that nature may have missed K_4 crystal. Created by Hisashi Naito. Credit: Hisashi Naito For centuries, human beings have been entranced by the...
Quest For A New Class Of Superconductors This photo shows a magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen. A...
Microsoft Bigwigs Donate to Telescope (AP) -- A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft...
Strange-behaving crystals could have impact on research, technology Aperiodic, rule-bending crystals are the focus of an article that appears in the Jan. 4...
I have some ideas about the universe's beginnings and dynamics. I really enjoy listening to others' ideas and seeing what they believe and why they believe it....
Sunspot is harbinger of new solar cycle, increasing risk for electrical systems The first official sunspot belonging to the new Solar Cycle 24 is shown in the...
Researchers bend light through waveguides in colloidal crystals Researchers at the University of Illinois are the first to achieve optical waveguiding of...
Inbox Astronomy - Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars January 8, 2008 Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned...
Swift, Gemini probe mysterious explosion in the distant past Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope captured this image of the afterglow of GRB 070714B, the...
Hubble Finds that 'Blue Blobs' in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars Ground-based View of M81-M82 Group. Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay (STScI) and R. Gendler ...
Astronomers discover ancestors of Milky Way-type galaxies An extended, chain-like Lyman alpha emitting galaxy, 12 billion light years from Earth, as imaged by...
Astronomers Describe New Evidence of 'Inconvenient' Galaxy In this color image of NGC4622, note the strong inner counter-clockwise outward winding single arm...
China to contribute 1.4 billion dollars to ITER This file photo shows French and Chinese officials looking at a model of the International Themonuclear...
2008 International CES - January 7, 2008 CES Notebook: Gates Gives Final Keynote Microsoft's outgoing chairman holds forth on the "second digital decade" and...
One Crystal That Nature May Have Missed K4 crystal. (Credit: Image created by Hisashi Naito)ScienceDaily (Jan. 8, 2008) - For centuries, human beings have been...
Hidden Population of Powerful Black Holes Revealed in Large Sky Survey A team of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) scientists, led by Princeton University's...
New X-ray source in nearby galaxy spawns mystery X-ray sources appear and disappear in the nearby galaxy Centaurus A. Astronomers at Ohio State University and...
Integral discovers the galaxy's antimatter cloud is lopsided The left-hand panel shows the glow of 511 keV gamma rays coming from the annihilation of electrons...
Vast Cloud Of Antimatter Traced To Binary Stars This is an artist's impression of ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral. (Credit: ESA)ScienceDaily...
Huge black hole tips the scales By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Austin Astronomers have weighed the biggest known black hole in the Universe. The...
Inbox Astronomy - Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring January 10, 2008 Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring Get larger image formats Find the entire Hubble News...
Inbox Astronomy - The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web January 10, 2008 The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark...
NASA Scientists Predict Black Hole Light Echo Show About 75% of a flare's X-rays (black line) head toward Earth without completing an orbit. But the remainder...