During the evening of 8 October 2014, ESA's observatory on the island of Tenerife, Spain, lit up the International Space Station with a green laser, normally used for testing next-generation optical communication technologies.
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2014
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A team of archeologists working in Israel's Tel Burna dig site have unearthed the remains of a large stone complex dating back approximately 3,300 years. Information about the finding was presented at the recent European ...
The experimenters stared through bulletproof glass at the whirling 8 m-diameter centrifuge. Never mind the shaking or stirring of drink cocktails – what happens when you spin a cocktail of molten metal?
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2014
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Myths about the brain are common among teachers worldwide and are hampering teaching, according to new research published today [15 October].
Social Sciences
Oct 16, 2014
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Washington State University researchers have developed a new catalyst that could lead to making biofuels cheaply and more efficiently.
Materials Science
Oct 16, 2014
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NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volatile materials within permanently shadowed craters near Mercury's ...
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2014
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Researchers in Japan have developed a novel yet simple technique, called "diffusion driven layer-by-layer assembly," to construct graphene into porous three-dimensional (3D) structures for applications in devices such as ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 16, 2014
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A team of researchers with members from the U.S., Germany and Kuwait has found that sea otter dental enamel is approximately two and a half times as strong as human dental enamel. In their study published in the journal Biology ...
What makes one rose bush blossom with flowers, while another remains barren? Astronomers ask a similar question of galaxies, wondering how some flourish with star formation and others barely bloom.
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2014
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Archaeological finds of glass material from Old Lödöse, a Swedish trade centre in the High Middle Ages, call for a revision of the country's glass history. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis in archaeology from ...
Archaeology
Oct 16, 2014
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