Tech: Looking at molecules from two sides with table-top femtosecond soft-X-rays — (Report)

X-ray spectroscopy provides direct access into the nature of chemical bonds, from which the outcome of chemical reactions can be understood. For this,...

Tech: Interdisciplinary team of scientists develops a new numerical technique to describe molecules in...

Feynman diagrams are a powerful tool in condensed matter physics. By turning highly complex equations into sets of simple diagrams, the method has...

Tech: What do we see in a mirror? New metasurfaces look ‘bright’ at one...

Researchers at Aalto University developed metasurfaces with extreme angle-asymmetric response. The new device can be a good or bad reflector depending on the...

Tech: NASA’s InSight places first instrument on Mars — (Report)

NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander...

Tech: The coolest experiment in the universe — (Report)

What's the coldest place you can think of? Temperatures on a winter day in Antarctica dip as low as -120ºF (-85ºC). On the...

Tech: Holiday asteroid imaged with NASA radar — (Report)

The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images...

Tech: New composite advances lignin as a renewable 3D printing material — (Report)

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a recipe for a renewable 3D printing feedstock that could spur...

Tech: Discovery could lead to munitions that go further, much faster — (Report)

Researchers from the U.S. Army and top universities discovered a new way to get more energy out of energetic materials containing aluminum, common...

Tech: Predicting the properties of a new class of glasses — (Report)

ZIF glasses, a new family of glass, could combine the transparency of silicate glass with the nonbrittle quality of metallic glass, according to...

Tech: Scientists use magnetic defects to achieve electromagnetic wave breakthrough — (Report)

Surfers spend much of their time watching long waves come onto the shoreline as they attempt to catch one right as it begins...

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