Fire is inanimate, yet anyone staring into a flame could be excused for thinking otherwise: Fire dances and swirls. It reproduces, consumes matter, and produces waste. It adapts to its environment. It needs oxygen to survive.
Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2014
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Demand for 'critical' metals used to manufacture low-carbon energy technologies is rising rapidly and requires serious attention from industry and policymakers, but scaremongering about scarcity is misguided. This is the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 11, 2014
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History will be made when the world's first 3D-printed car drives out of McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill. During the six-day IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014, the vehicle will be printed over ...
Engineering
Sep 11, 2014
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Ground support personnel are seen at the landing site after the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft landed with Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian ...
Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2014
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Sang Won Yoon had a good Chinese meal recently—not always easy in America. It's on his mind.
Computer Sciences
Sep 11, 2014
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It is common knowledge – at least to anyone who trawls the shallower reaches of the internet – that people resemble their pets.
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2014
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DARPA's Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneous Integration (E-PHI) program has successfully integrated billions of light-emitting dots on silicon to create an efficient silicon-based laser. The breakthrough, achieved by researchers ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 11, 2014
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A recently published Open Access article "Is That Dog a Pit Bull? A Cross-Country Comparison of Perceptions of Shelter Workers Regarding Breed Identification" asserts that shelter workers operating in areas restricted by ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2014
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Animals in the south-west which have a limited ability to travel show a high degree of local endemism, according to a review of genetic data for fauna in the region.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2014
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Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) and the University of Maryland have for the first time used photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) to characterize individual plasmonic nanomaterials ...
Nanophysics
Sep 11, 2014
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