Russia aims for first conquest of Mars

Russia on Wednesday launches a probe for Mars that aims to collect a chunk of a Martian moon and become Moscow

NASA's Fermi finds youngest millisecond pulsar, 100 pulsars to-date

This surprisingly powerful pulsar challenges existing theories about how these objects form.

New process for manufacturing nanocellulose: using nanocellulose to create novel composite materials

For some time now nanocellulose has been at the focus of a good deal of industrial and scientific interest as a novel biomaterial. Potential applications range from the creation of new kinds of commercially useful materials and uses in medical technology all the way to the food and pharmaceutical industries. Swiss researchers have now developed a manufacturing process for nanocellulose powder, the raw material for creating polymer composites which can be used, for example, in lightweight structures for the car industry or as membrane and filter material for biomedicinal applications.

New form of lighting rolled out: newspaper-style printing process

In a new article, researchers describe a way of creating thin, flexible sheets of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using a cheap, newspaper-style

How to unbalance nothingness: physicists calculate the time development of the vacuum decay

Physicists around the world are hoping to witness a particularly spectacular characteristic in a few years

Boeing to build commercial spacecraft at Kennedy, create 550 jobs

In an innovative agreement that will create new jobs, NASA today announced a partnership with Space Florida to occupy, use and modify facilities at Kennedy Space Center.

One step closer to dark matter in universe

Scientists all over the world are working feverishly to find the dark matter in the universe. Now researchers have taken one step closer to solving the enigma with a new method.

Scotland to build the world's first hybrid ferries for 2013

Scotland is building ferries that will run on battery power and diesel in an effort to create jobs and develop green technology.

Planets could orbit singularities inside black holes

Certain black holes can have a complex internal structure that could allow photons, particles, and perhaps even planets to orbit the central singularity

Telexistence robot avatar transmits sight, hearing and touch

TELESAR V, a  telexistence robot system being researched at Keio University, aims to free people from time and space constraints by using remotely