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wind-turbine
Science Wire | May 20, 2013

Compressing air for renewable energy storage

Study identifies two compressed air energy storage methods and sites for the Northwest.

Show above are elastic conductors using silver nanowires, which are said to offer several advantages over other materials used in the past.
Science Wire | May 20, 2013

Opening doors to foldable electronics

Researchers develop method to print highly conductive, bendable layers of graphene.

Photo credit: Chris Zahm
Interviews | May 20, 2013

Chris Zahm: Understanding and probing the world below our feet

Necessary resources such as oil and water lie below our feet. How today’s scientists are coming to understand the world underground, while exploring for resources in safe, practical and effective ways.

chemical flowers
Science Wire | May 17, 2013

Beautiful flowers self-assemble in a beaker

Elaborate nanostructures blossom from a chemical reaction perfected at Harvard.

excavation site
Science Wire | May 17, 2013

New discovery shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

Use of new analysis techniques provides food for thought about how people lived 5,000 years ago.

Kepler spacecraft
Science Wire | May 16, 2013

How NASA might revive the Kepler planet-hunter

Scott Hubbard, a consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics, explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.

flexible-skin-like-heart-300
Science Wire | May 16, 2013

Engineers monitor heart health using paper-thin flexible skin

Engineers created a wearable heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill that could one day provide doctors with a safer way to check the condition of a patient’s heart.

This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. The orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold interstellar dust, at wavelengths too long for human eyes to see. It was observed by the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile. In this image, the submillimetre-wavelength glow of the dust clouds is overlaid on a view of the region in the more familiar visible light, from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The large bright cloud in the upper right of the image is the well-known Orion Nebula, also called Messier 42.
Science Wire | May 15, 2013

Orion’s hidden fiery ribbon

This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky.

If NYC were on Mars
Blogs | May 15, 2013

Here’s how NYC would look under the skies of other worlds

“I felt that if I could show people what New York City looked like on other planets, I’d give people a sense of how lucky we are to be living on Earth.”

MIGHTI
Science Wire | May 15, 2013

MIGHTI Slated for Launch on ICON Mission

A instrument designed to study the Earth’s thermosphere is part of a satellite mission that NASA has selected to move forward into development.