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Navy Triton Unmanned Aircraft System Completes First Flight
May 23, 2013 3:16 pm | by U.S. Navy | News | Comments
The Navy's newest unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft platform, the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), completed its first flight from Palmdale, CA, on May 22, 2013, marking the start of tests which will validate the Northrop Grumman-built system for future fleet operations.
Doctors save Ohio boy by Printing an Airway Tube
May 23, 2013 3:19 pm | by Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer | News | Comments
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway...
Philosopher Jill North Explores Quantum Reality
May 23, 2013 3:12 pm | by Linda B. Glaser, Cornell | News | Comments
Philosopher Jill North ponders what quantum mechanics has done to reality. In a post-Einstein...
Quest for Dark Matter Begins With a Few Tiny Bubbles
May 23, 2013 3:09 pm | by Megan Fellman, Northwestern University | News | Comments
Northwestern University physicist Eric Dahl is part of a group of physicists that has just...
Moth Antenna
May 23, 2013 3:21 pm | News | CommentsThis 100x photo of a moth antenna received an honorable mention in the 2012 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition. It was taken by Dr. Donna Beer Stolz of the Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, using confocal stack reconstruction of autofluorescence.
Strong Storms over Oklahoma
May 22, 2013 11:32 am | News | CommentsThis image of the storm system that generated the F-4 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma was taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard one of the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites. The image was captured as the tornado began its deadly swath.
Rice Unveils Method for Tailoring Optical Processors
May 21, 2013 4:04 pm | by Rice University | News | CommentsHOUSTON -- (May 21, 2013) -- Rice University scientists have unveiled a robust new method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors that transform incoming light signals into output of a different color. The breakthrough by a team of theoretical and applied physicists and engineers at Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) is described this...
Solar, Lithium Ion Cars Race
May 21, 2013 4:04 pm | by National Renewable Energy Laboratory | News | CommentsNinety-seven teams from 28 Colorado schools participated in today's car competitions hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The student teams raced solar and lithium ion powered vehicles they designed and built themselves.
Billion-year-old Water could hold Clues to Life on Earth and Mars
May 21, 2013 3:24 pm | by University of Manchester | News | CommentsScientists have discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life. This water could be some of the oldest on the planet and may even contain life. Not just that, but the similarity between the rocks that trapped it and those on Mars raises the hope that comparable life-sustaining water could lie buried beneath the red planet’s surface.
NASA Launching Experiment to Examine Beginnings of Universe
May 21, 2013 2:55 pm | by Keith Koehle, NASA Wallops Flight Facility | News | CommentsWhen did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe? How brightly did they burn their nuclear fuel? The first massive stars to form in the universe produced copious ultraviolet light that ionized gas from neutral hydrogen. CIBER observes in the near infrared, as the expansion of the universe stretched the original short ultraviolet wavelengths to long near-infrared wavelengths today.
Zooplankton Shells
May 21, 2013 11:38 am | News | CommentsThis 120x photo of Radiolaria shells received an honorable mention in the 2012 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition. It was taken by Ralph Claus Grimm of Jimboomba, Queensland, Australia, using a darkfield technique.
Supersonic Noise
May 21, 2013 9:51 am | News | CommentsThe Twin Rectangular Jet model, installed on the Nozzle Acoustic Test Rig in the Aeroacoustic Propulsion Laboratory at NASA's Glenn Research Center, is being tested to determine the acoustic impact of engine configurations on low sonic boom aircraft for the High Speed Project of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program.
Intel Partners in Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
May 21, 2013 9:39 am | by Intel | News | CommentsIntel joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in a National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) partnership, along with 10 other industry leaders: Cisco, HP, HyTrust, McAfee, Microsoft, RSA, Splunk, Symantec, Vanguard and Venafi.
NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-ray Navigation Technologies
May 20, 2013 8:10 pm | by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | News | CommentsPulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as flashes of light, blinking on and off at intervals from seconds to milliseconds. A NASA team has built a first-of-a-kind testbed that simulates these distinctive pulsations.
Compressing Air for Renewable Energy Storage
May 20, 2013 3:40 pm | by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | News | CommentsRICHLAND, Wash. – Enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month could be stored in porous rocks deep underground for later use, according to a new, comprehensive study. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Bonneville Power Administration identified two unique methods for this energy storage approach and two eastern Washington...
Robots Learn Proper Handoff, Follow Digitized Human Examples
May 20, 2013 12:42 pm | by Disney Research | News | CommentsA humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded by the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Higher Performance Computing: Enabling a Smarter, Brighter Energy Future
May 20, 2013 11:45 am | by Carl Bauer, Bauer Consulting | News | CommentsSupplying energy to the American people is an increasingly complex task. These complexities include not just the conversion of the various forms of energy (oil, gas, wind, hydropower, etc.) into useful forms (transportation fuel and electricity) but also moving the more useful form to where it can be used (transmission). Economics and government regulations complicate the matter further.
Deep-sea Copepod
May 20, 2013 10:10 am | News | CommentsThis 10x photo shows the dorsal view of a female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) collected in the southeastern Atlantic at a depth of 5395 meters. The image received an honorable mention in the 2012 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition.
Gut of Fruit Fly Larva
May 17, 2013 1:55 pm | News | CommentsThis photo shows a single optical section through the whole gut of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) larva expressing a reporter for Notch signaling pathway activity (green), and stained with cytoskeletal (red) and nuclear (blue) markers.
COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b
May 17, 2013 1:53 pm | Comsol, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsThe COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b simulation platform features application-specific modules, including Multibody Dynamics, Wave Optics, Molecular Flow, and Semiconductor and Electrochemistry.
Physicists Create World's Smallest Droplets
May 17, 2013 8:54 am | by Vanderbilt University | News | CommentsPhysicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland.
New Method Proposed for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Ends of Universe
May 16, 2013 7:57 pm | by University of Nevada, Reno | News | CommentsRENO, Nev. – A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos. Their paper describing the device and process was published in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters.
Carbon in a Twirl: The Science Behind a Self-assembled Nano-carbon Helix
May 16, 2013 12:54 pm | by University of Vienna | News | CommentsNanomaterials exhibit unique properties that can only unfold when the structures of the material are very small – that is, at the nanoscale. In order to exploit these special properties such as, for example, specific quantum effects it is very important to produce predefined nanostructures in a controlled way and interpret the formation of their shape. Scientists try to understand how to initiate...
Red Algae
May 16, 2013 10:33 am | News | CommentsThis 10x photo of red algae (Ptilota) received an honorable mention in the 2012 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition. Dr. Arlene Wechezak of Anacortes, WA, used a darkfield technique to capture the image. www.nikonsmallworld.com
New World Record set in Wireless Data Transmission
May 16, 2013 9:22 am | by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | News | CommentsResearchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission.
Bombardment: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
May 15, 2013 7:09 pm | by University of Arizona | News | CommentsScientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across. Researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface in the past decade
NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope Eye Surgery
May 15, 2013 7:09 pm | by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | News | CommentsMuch like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope. They scrubbed up and suited up to perform one of the most delicate performances of their lives. That part of the eyes, the MIRI, or Mid-Infrared Instrument, will glimpse the formation of...
Achieving Net-zero Energy Homes
May 15, 2013 7:09 pm | by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | News | CommentsChances are you know how many miles your car logs for each gallon or tankful of gas, but you probably have only a foggy idea of how much energy your house consumes, even though home energy expenditures often account for a larger share of the household budget.
Catching Elusive, Stunning Graphene Butterflies
May 15, 2013 2:59 pm | by University of Manchester | News | CommentsWriting in Nature, a large international team led Dr Roman Gorbachev from The University of Manchester shows that, when graphene placed on top of insulating boron nitride, or 'white graphene', the electronic properties of graphene change dramatically revealing a pattern resembling a butterfly. The pattern is referred to as the elusive Hofstadter butterfly that has been known in theory for many...
