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Silver Nanocubes Make Super Light Absorbers, Hold Great Potential for Solar Cells
December 6, 2012 — Microscopic metallic cubes could unleash the enormous potential of metamaterials to absorb light, leading to more efficient and cost-effective large-area absorbers for sensors or solar cells, ... > full story -
Seeing in Color at the Nanoscale: Scientists Develop a New Nanotech Tool to Probe Solar-Energy Conversion
December 6, 2012 — If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for ... > full story -
Fermi Improves Its Vision for Thunderstorm Gamma-Ray Flashes
December 6, 2012 — Thanks to improved data analysis techniques and a new operating mode, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is now 10 times better at catching the brief outbursts ... > full story -
Rapid Eye Movements Significantly Delayed in People With Glaucoma
December 6, 2012 — Rapid eye movements are significantly delayed in patients with glaucoma, even those in the early stages of the disease, research has ... > full story -
Feeling Disgust May Enhance Our Ability to Detect Impurities
December 6, 2012 — From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with disgust presumably helps us to avoid contaminants that can make us sick or even kill us. But new ... > full story -
Image of the Carina Nebula Marks Inauguration of VLT Survey Telescope
December 6, 2012 — A spectacular new image of the star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory and released on the occasion of the ... > full story -
Copper, Gold and Tin for Efficient Chips
December 6, 2012 — With gold, copper or tin and special galvanizing processes, scientists are improving the function of semi-conductors and making the manufacture of microelectronic systems a child‘s play. ... > full story -
Flexible Silicon Solar-Cell Fabrics May Soon Become Possible
December 6, 2012 — For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that is capable of being scaled up to many meters in length. The research opens the door to the ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Galaxy Hit a Bullseye
December 6, 2012 — In Hubble’s image, NGC 922 clearly reveals itself not to be a normal spiral galaxy. The spiral arms are disrupted, a stream of stars extends out towards the top of the image, and a bright ring ... > full story -
NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
December 5, 2012 — Scientists have unveiled an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and NOAA satellite, shows the glow of ... > full story
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