Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have disc… [+4965 chars]
ByAndrew Nellis, University of ChicagoJune 17, 2022 A University of Chicago scientist is demystifying the dark art of electrolyte design. Creating the Building Blocks for Next-Generation Batteries … [+7060 chars]
Just like a murder of crows, a shrewdness of apes and a murmuration of starlings, tightly packed stars of a similar age within the center of a galaxy have a collective name: a bulge. Most galaxies h… [+4856 chars]
After more than 44 years of travelling farther from Earth than any man-made objects have before, the Voyager spacecraft are entering their very final phase. Both of the Voyagers were launched from C… [+7212 chars]
A novel nanoscale catalysis-based flame retardance system was developed and integrated into a polypropylene polymer matrix in a research paper published in the journal Materials Letters. This study o… [+5323 chars]
Medical devices, cars, and many advanced technologies contain innumerable delicate components that are held together by electrically conductive polymers, such as polyaniline. For several decades, syn… [+2770 chars]
10:53, 17.06.22 Fifteen years into the future, AccuBeat plans on its Ultra-Stable-Oscillator (USO) still functioning as it floats through deep space. And while telling time in space is anything but… [+7731 chars]
This past April, NASA and its partners at the German space agency announced the end to the SOFIA mission. The modified Boeing 747SP jumbo jet is being retired after eight years of service, but its sc… [+852 chars]
As many as 40 scientific proposals have been accepted from research teams across the world as everyone queues up to get a piece of asteroid that hides ingredients for life. The selected proposals are… [+1359 chars]
An international research team has recently developed a new proton capture reaction rate of copper-57 for the extreme astrophysical environment at the surface of neutron stars. The researchers found … [+2877 chars]
While the global space agencies are trying to dominate the low-Earth orbit (LEO), the space race has birthed a neglected but serious problem -- the problem of space debris. According to current estim… [+1922 chars]
The Royal Museums at Greenwich (opens in new tab), London, are a mine of information about this and other lunar topics. Royal Museums Greenwich comprises the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, National… [+2153 chars]
