A composite radio-optical image shows five new clouds of hydrogen gas discovered using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The spiral galaxy M81 and its satellite, M82, are seen in ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2008
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected plump black holes where least expected -- skinny galaxies.
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2008
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Scientists have identified the gene that sets off a sequence of events in the blood vessels of otherwise healthy adults that can lead to high blood pressure. The disease process eventually makes conditions in vessels ripe ...
Jan 10, 2008
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Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...
Nanophysics
Jan 10, 2008
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A new study using results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides one of the best pieces of evidence yet that many supermassive black holes are spinning extremely rapidly. The whirling of these giant black holes drives ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2008
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It’s well known that black holes can slow time to a crawl and tidally stretch large objects into spaghetti-like strands. But according to new theoretical research from two NASA astrophysicists, the wrenching gravity just ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2008
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MIT scientists have found a new way that DNA can carry out its work that is about as surprising as discovering that a mold used to cast a metal tool can also serve as a tool itself, with two complementary shapes each showing ...
Jan 10, 2008
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When a machine jams, it’s the fault of the engineer - or of physics. The latter is true at least for the first simple nanomachines which are slowed down by the Casimir effect. This force only works on the scale of a few ...
General Physics
Jan 10, 2008
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What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2008
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NASA will point a power-packed $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder space instrument at some of the last unexplored terrain in the inner solar system when the MESSENGER spacecraft whips within 125 miles of Mercury's ...
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2008
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