NASA announced yesterday that the Phoenix Lander sitting on Mars’ north pole lost some “non-critical” science data yesterday because the lander generated an “unusually high volume” of housekeeping ...

When a laser experiment fails to produce the expected flash of light, most researchers would assume something went wrong with ...

The dramatic flashing implosion of tiny bubbles–in acetone containing deuterium atoms–produces tritium and nuclear emissions similar to emissions characteristic of nuclear fusion involving ...

Late last night, hundreds of warm bodies piled together in the 20° weather outside of the undergraduate library at UNC Chapel Hill. For ten minutes at midnight, Carolina students shed the weight of ...

The supermassive void's extreme jet is pointed toward our planet. But don't worry, it's 8.5 billion light-years away. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space ...

Scientists are using high-energy pulses of electricity to turn any source of carbon into turbostratic graphene in an instant. The process promises environmental benefits by turning waste into valuable ...

Someday, specialized systems could barrage cancer patients with particles to deliver a full course of radiation therapy in mere microseconds, new research suggests. Using an emerging technique known ...

The science that the CW television series “The Flash” deals with usually is based on a kernel of truth, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said Saturday night. “There’s just enough real science in it ...

An article has been published in the December 2012 edition of IEEE Spectrum that highlights an interesting and potentially useful discovery by ROM manufacturer Macronix. Researchers there have ...

Busy shoppers hurrying to and from Lancaster Central Market stopped short Friday morning, when a white cloud suddenly appeared in Penn Square. The attention-grabbing cloud — caused by combining liquid ...

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