The Importance of Charles Darwin

Mechanical Regulation Effects Stem Cell Development, Adhesion

The Birth of the Universe Big Bang and Beyond

Silicon can be made to melt in reverse

The size of the Universe

Bedrock is a Milestone in Climate Research

We May Actually Live Inside a Black Hole, Vincent

Le satellite Planck a délivré une première image de l'ensemble du ciel

L'Univers, actuel et passé

No Sex Please, We’re Rotifers: Study Documents Use of Hormone Progesterone in Microscopic Aquatic Animals

MIT leads the first team to study a Kuiper Belt object during a stellar occultation Occultation provided enough data to determine the KBO’s size and a

This artist's concept of a Kuiper Belt object found by the Hubble telescope is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping 4.2 billion miles away.
Image: NASA

Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Researchers Develop Ultra-Simple Method for Creating Nanoscale Gold Coatings

Researchers at Rensselaer have developed a new, ultra-simple method for making layers of gold that measure only billionths of a meter thick. As seen in the research image, drops of gold-infused toluene applied to a surface evaporate within a few minutes and leave behind a uniform layer of nanoscale gold. The process requires no sophisticated equipment, works on nearly any surface, takes only 10 minutes, and could have important implications for nanoelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing.

Mars : Encore plus humide qu'on le pensait

Jason Karp Wins Research Expo 2010 Rudee Outstanding Poster

Congratulations to Jason Karp, the electrical engineering PhD student who won the top prize -- the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award -- at Research Expo 2010 for his new solar concentrator design. Read the abstract at Poster #98 at http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/ Related Link »

Short Communication Local atmospheric decoupling in complex topography alters climate change impacts

Bizarre matter could find use in quantum computers Rice physicists: Odd electron mix has fault-tolerant quantum registry

From left, Rice physicist Rui-Rui Du, graduate students Chi Zhang and Yanhua Dai, and (not pictured) former postdoctoral researcher Tauno Knuuttila have found that odd groupings of ultracold electrons could be useful in making fault-tolerant quantum computers.