Smart clothing: memory-storing fiber could lead to smart fabrics and wearable electronics

Scientists at the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Center have developed a new flexible memory fabric woven together from interlocking

China prepares to launch first space lab module this week

China in testing its first space laboratory module, the Tiangong-1, at the end of this week. The module will conduct docking experiments after entering

Linked quantum dots could create cheap, efficient solar cells

Researchers at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft in the Netherlands have demonstrated that electrons can move freely in layers of linked

Scientists release most accurate simulation of the universe to date

The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, announced Thursday, is the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, giving physicists and

Was a giant planet ejected from the Solar system?

The "fifth planet" is a hypothesized giant world that was flung out of our solar system 4 billion years ago.

Cloaking magnetic fields -- the first antimagnet

Spanish researchers have designed what they believe to be a new type of magnetic cloak, which shields objects from external magnetic fields, while at the same time preventing any magnetic internal fields from leaking outside, making the cloak undetectable.

NASA to demonstrate communications via laser beam

It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans to demonstrate in 2016 will lead the way and even allow the streaming of high-definition video from distances beyond the Moon.

Could primordial black holes be dark matter?

(PhysOrg.com) -- “We know that about 25% of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but we don’t know what it is,” Michael Kesden tells PhysOrg.com. “There are a number of different theories about what dark matter could be, but we think one alternative might be very small primordial black holes.”

Antimatter sticks around

By successfully confining atoms of antihydrogen for an unprecedented 1,000 seconds, an international team of researchers called the ALPHA Collaboration has taken a step towards resolving one of the grand challenges of modern physics: explaining why the Universe is made almost entirely of matter, when matter and antimatter are symmetric, with identical mass, spin and other properties. The achievement is remarkable because antimatter instantly disappears on contact with regular matter such that confining antimatter requires the use of exotic technology.

Breakthrough: proton-based chips that communicate directly with living things

University of Washington scientists have just crossed another major threshold between humans and machines: they

Next-generation solar cell technology

The most efficient colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell ever has been created by researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), King Abdullah

Scientists turn back the clock on adult stem cells aging

Researchers led by the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown they can reverse the aging process for human

Exquisite exoplanetary art: photos

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Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built (Update)

To soar far away from Earth and even beyond the moon, NASA has dreamed up the world