Lightning 'superbolts' form over oceans from November to February

Lightning superbolts — which unleash a thousand times more low-frequency energy than regular lightning bolts —…

Making and controlling crystals of light

Scientists have shown how light inside optical on-chip microresonators can be crystallized in a form of…

Spintronics: Physicists discover new material for highly efficient data processing

A new material could aid in the development of extremely energy efficient IT applications. The electrons…

Feeling legs again improves amputees' health

Two volunteers are the first above-knee amputees in the world to feel their prosthetic foot and…

Identity crisis for fossil beetle helps rewrite beetle family tree

A tiny fossil beetle, about the size of FDR’s nose on the US dime, is a…

Canadarm2 to help astronauts catch cargo ship and install new ISS batteries

On September 10, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) will head to the International Space Station…

Kentucky Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts on Space Station

Students from Kentucky will have an opportunity this week to talk live with NASA astronauts currently…

PIA23446: Pavonis Mons

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

Titan’s odd-shaped lakes may have formed from underground explosions

Saturn’s moon Titan has some lakes that are strangely shaped and appear to have formed from…

Researchers unearth 'new' mass-extinction

A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which…