Tech: Young galaxy’s halo offers clues to its growth and evolution — (Report)
A team of astronomers has discovered a new way to unlock the mysteries of how the first galaxies formed and evolved.
In a study...
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: Antireflection coating makes plastic invisible — (Report)
Antireflection (AR) coatings on plastics have a multitude of practical applications, including glare reduction on eyeglasses, computer monitors and the display on your...
Tech: The holy grail of nanowire production — (Report)
Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a...
Tech: Sandwich structure of nanocrystals as quantum light source — (Report)
Excited photo-emitters can cooperate and radiate simultaneously, a phenomenon called superfluorescence. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, together with colleagues from IBM Research...
Tech: Inert nitrogen forced to react with itself — (Report)
Constituting over 78 % of the air we breathe, nitrogen is the element found the most often in its pure form on earth....
Tech: 3D-printed robot hand plays the piano — (Report)
Scientists have developed a 3D-printed robotic hand which can play simple musical phrases on the piano by just moving its wrist. And while...
Tech: New interactive machine learning tool makes car designs more aerodynamic — (Report)
When engineers or designers want to test the aerodynamic properties of the newly designed shape of a car, airplane, or other object, they...
Tech: A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past — (Report)
Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our cosmic neighborhood was a chaotic...
Tech: Technique enables analysis of how living systems work at small scales — ...
What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call "free energy," essentially the...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
