Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest ...

Graphite oxide at high pressure opens a road to new amazing nano-materials

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

9 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New results by scientists at Umeľ University, Sweden, show that not only water but also alcohol solvents can be inserted to expand the structure of graphite oxide under high pressure conditions. The ...

Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

13 hours ago | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...

Heme channel found

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Dec 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

In some ways a cell in your body or an organelle in that cell is like an ancient walled town. Life inside either depends critically on the intelligence of the gatekeepers.

World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Early Cretaceous sauropod Paluxysaurus jonesi weighed 20 tons, was 60 feet long and had a neck 26 feet long, according to scientists who prepared the world's first full skeletal mount ...