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NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar ... > full story -
Uncovering Unique Properties in a Two-Dimensional Crystal: Potential for Optoelectronics, Solar Cells, Valleytronics
December 3, 2012 — When the dry lubricant molybdenum disulfide is stripped down to a single layer of atoms, a tightly bound quasi-particle comprised of two electrons and a hole forms with unique spin and valley ... > full story -
Complex Chemistry Within the Martian Soil: No Definitive Detection of Organics Yet
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and ... > full story -
Hubble Spots a Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy
December 3, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253. NGC 5253 is one of the nearest of the known Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, and is located at a ... > full story -
A Better Way to Make Chemicals? Technique for Observing 'Mechanochemical' Synthesis Could Boost Green Chemistry
December 2, 2012 — For the first time, scientists have studied a mechanochemical milling reaction in real time, using highly penetrating X-rays to observe the surprisingly rapid transformations as the mill mixed, ... > full story -
Small and Efficient: Water Nanodroplets Cool Biomolecules Ultrafast
November 30, 2012 — Researchers have observed how biomolecules transfer energy into extremely small water droplets in their environment. A water shell consisting of only three water molecules around a phospholipid ... > full story -
New View of the Sun: Radio Telescope Could Save World Billions Through Advanced Warnings
November 30, 2012 — A small pocket of Western Australia’s remote outback is set to become the eye on the sky and could potentially save the world billions of dollars. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Water Ice on Mercury: Ice and Organic Material May Have Been Carried to the Planet by Passing Comets
November 29, 2012 — Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, revolves around the sun in a mere 88 days, making a tight orbit that keeps the planet incredibly toasty. Surface temperatures on ... > full story -
The Beginning of Everything: New Paradigm Shift for the Infant Universe
November 29, 2012 — A new paradigm for understanding the earliest eras in the history of the universe has been developed. The new paradigm shows, for the first time, that the large-scale structures we now see in the ... > full story -
Too Much Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster? 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All
November 29, 2012 — Astronomers were puzzled earlier this year when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted an overabundance of dark matter in the heart of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520. This observation was ... > full story
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