Sep 7, 2011 by News Staff

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the sharpest images of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites ever taken from space. Images show the...

Sep 6, 2011 by News Staff

A constant stabilization experiment of a quantum state has been successfully completed for the first time by a team from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel,...

Sep 5, 2011 by News Staff

Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity with categories of words related to the concepts a person is thinking about....

Sep 5, 2011 by News Staff

Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. This delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit...

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers found that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language.  Findings of their research mark a major advance in the...

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. Writing...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

The CLOUD experiment at CERN has been designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols under controlled laboratory...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 — nicknamed Snow White — is an icy...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures...

Aug 24, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a...

Aug 21, 2011 by News Staff

Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by...

Aug 18, 2011 by News Staff

A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has shown how to disrupt the ‘coffee ring effect’ — the ring-shaped stain of particles left...

Aug 18, 2011 by News Staff

Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to test a long-standing theory in sociology that everyone on Earth is connected together in a giant social network. Yahoo’s...

Aug 17, 2011 by News Staff

Heads of Roscosmos and the European Space Agency discussed future manned mission to Mars at Air Show MAKS-2011, was announced on Wednesday, August 17,2011. ‘Flight...

Aug 16, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists in a lab with Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station in southern Guangdong Province have found neutrino through two detecting instruments, which is...

Aug 15, 2011 by News Staff

An international team of researchers takes an important step toward giving physicists the ability to effectively make movies of individual electrons. If...

Aug 15, 2011 by News Staff

‘Fobos-Grunt spacecraft has been compiled and sent to the vibration test. A couple of weeks it will be shaken to simulate extreme space conditions’,...

Aug 12, 2011 by News Staff

A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered...

Aug 12, 2011 by News Staff

A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, has reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible...