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Breaking the Mold: Nature Inspires Tougher Ceramics -
'TransProse' Software Creates Musical Soundtracks from Books -
Northern Lights' Physics Could Aid in Nuclear Fusion -
Could Tiny 'Black Hole Atoms' Be Elusive Dark Matter?Scientists have been on the hunt for dark matter for decades. A new hypothesis now suggests that the strange invisible stuff could be made of microscopic, or quantum, black hole atoms.
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New State of Light Revealed With Photon-Trapping MethodA theoretical physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) has developed a mathematical model for trapping light — even at room temperature.
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Milky Way's Structure Mapped in Unprecedented DetailThe Milky Way is a spiral galaxy — but what exactly does it look like? Does it have two, four, or more arms? Astronomers think that now they’re one step closer to the answer.
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Nano Webs Could Counterfeit-Proof Credit CardsMoney, gadgets and credit cards could soon have tiny, invisible anti-counterfeiting "fingerprints" embedded into them, making it pretty much impossible to falsify such objects, say scientists.
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Bacteria Could Grow Futuristic 'Self-Healing' Materials -
Weird 'Techni-Quarks' May Lurk Inside Higgs Boson ParticleTheories have long predicted the existence of teensy particles that might make up the Higgs boson, and research suggests such pip-squeakes, dubbed techni-quarks, are likely lurking in the universe.
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How a Medieval Philosopher Dreamed Up the 'Multiverse' -
Flying Snakes May Inspire Future Gliding Suits -
This Novel Material May Help Soundproof Your LifeAir conditioners, cars and other machinery may soon be free of vibrations and thus much quieter than they are now, thanks to new so-called adaptive phononic crystals.
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Dinosaur Era Had 5 Times Today's CO2Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago had five times more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than we have today
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New Magnetic Material Could Boost Computer Data Storage -
Hunt Is On for 'Rogue' Black Holes -
Paradox Solved? How Information Can Escape from a Black HoleInside black holes dwell quantum remains of the stars from which they were formed, say a group of scientists, who also predict that these stars can later emerge once the black hole evaporates.
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Weird 'Entangled' Light Gives Microscope Sharper Images -
Lettuce-Based Electric Wires Sprout in the Lab -
Is Climate Change to Blame for UK's Floods?Scientists say climate change may be to blame for the current heavy downpours that have led to widespread flooding in the United Kingdom.
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Future Colliders May Dwarf Today's Largest Atom Smasher -
Exotic Particles, Tiny Extra Dimensions May Await Discovery -
Did Alien Life Evolve Just After the Big Bang?Alien microbes might have been crawling around on exoplanets just 15 million years after the Big Bang — and 10 billion years before life popped up on Earth.
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Squarks & Neutralinos Lurk in the Universe, Physicist Says
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Sound Waves Make Droplets Dance in Midair
