Push me, pull you? Without the influence of a force like dark energy, the lines on this data chart, taken from distant galaxies, would be nearly perfect...
Ages for the art. Radiocarbon dating places the age of this cave painting in Lascaux, France, at between 16,000 and 17,000 years. Credit: Wikipedia Solving the...
Dusty Clues: Study suggests no dearth of Earths Ron Cowen Supposedly, there's no place like home. But a new study suggests that earthlike planets orbit or are...
Researchers Create Gold Aluminum, Black Platinum, Blue Silver Using Tabletop Laser Gold Aluminum, Blue Titanium, Gold Platinum. (Credit: Richard Baker,...
DNA Is Blueprint, Contractor And Construction Worker For New Structures Computer rendition of a structure created by using DNA to assemble nanoparticles into...
Chips pass two billion milestone By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News This Chip has four separate cores The first chip to pack more...
Gas 'finger' points to galaxies' future Gas streaming from the Magellanic Clouds is piercing the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: John Rowe Animations ...
Materials can come from the mind, not just the mines Dr. Julia E. Medvedeva, assistant professor of physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology,...
Material Changes its Color, Depending on How You Look at It Chrysochroa vittata (left) and Hoplia coerulea (right) possess natural photonic crystal structures...
Particle smasher may reveal extra dimensions Feb. 1, 2008 Courtesy University of Wisconsin-Madison and World Science staff When the world's most powerful...
Inbox Astronomy - Isolated Galaxy or Corporate Merger? Hubble Spies NGC 1132 February 5, 2008 Isolated Galaxy or Corporate Merger? Hubble Spies NGC 1132 Get...
Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 -- a cosmic fossil? The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a...
Racing Ahead at the Speed of Light RHICs 2.4 mile ring has six intersection points where its two rings of accelerating magnets cross, allowing the particle...
3D breakthrough with updatable holographic displays Top row: Erasing of the hologram; Mid and bottom rows: 3D images shown from different angles, demonstrating...
Helium-8 Study Gives Insight Into Nuclear Theory, Neutron Stars The diagrams above illustrate the nuclear structure of three forms of helium. (Credit: Image...
Knee dynamo taps 'people power' By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News Bionic dynamo put through its paces in the lab A stroll around the...
Galaxy without dark matter puzzles astronomers 06:59 06 February 2008 NewScientist.com news service Stephen Battersby The spiral galaxy NGC 4736, which lies 15...
Pure mathematics behind the mechanics Dutch researcher Peter Hochs has discovered that the same effects can be observed in quantum and classical mechanics, if...
Million-Degree Plasma May Flow throughout the Galaxy Images of the Orion Nebula with its hot gas bubble. At left is an x-ray image taken by the XMM-Newton,...
Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine' Thane Heins´ "Perepiteia" generator seems to turn magnetic friction into a magnetic boost, causing the...
What Anthropic Reasoning Can Really Tell Us An infrared image of NGC 2244, an open cluster consisting of thousands of stars located in the Rosette Nebula....
"Sounds" of individual molecules captured Feb. 6, 2008 Courtesy Kansas State University and World Science staff Physicists say they've recorded tiny vibrations...
Name that Space Telescope! Would you like to name the next great space telescope? Here's your chance: NASA is inviting members of the general public from...
Latest Supercomputer Calculations Support the Six-Quark Theory A new calculation, reported in the January 25, 2008 issue of Physical Review Letters, confirms...
Building Blocks of Life Detected in Distant Galaxy Anne Minard for National Geographic News February 5, 2008 The discovery of an amino acid precursor in a...
Inbox Astronomy - Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe February 12, 2008 Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and...
Hubble finds strong contender for galaxy distance record A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a spider's web of eerily distorted...
Physicists reveal superconducting surprise MIT physicists have taken a step toward understanding the puzzling nature of high-temperature superconductors,...