Mars Rover Behaving Oddly
After five years of roving the Red Planet, Spirit’s unusual behavior has its operating team worried.
View ArticlePhysics: A Family Business
Modern physics through the generations.In September 1955, just off the boat from Italy and not yet 17, I enrolled as a freshman at Harvard College. Luckily, I already knew English. Although I was born...
View ArticleDesigning Structures Made of Nanomaterials
Microsoft researchers hope to simplify algorithms for self-assembling materials.Making complex structures out of nanoparticles or polymers, be they for photonic computing or solar cells, typically...
View ArticleEnd of the Road for Mars Rover
After six years of exploration, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has reached its final resting place.
View ArticleFabricating a Multifunctional Fiber
Fibers that carry light and sense pressure could be used for medical imaging and structural monitoring.Researchers at MIT have developed optical fibers that not only carry and modulate light, but also...
View ArticleA New Coating Promises the End of Smudges
Materials-coating advance could lead to eyeglasses that shed fingerprints.German researchers armed with smoking candles have come up with a cheap and easy way to coat surfaces so that oil droplets...
View ArticleFinally, a Rom-Com for Science
Losing Control is a movie that understands the nerd heart.
View ArticleRFID Enables Study of Chicken Pessimism
The smaller tracking devices become, the more applications they find.
View ArticleThe Alien Novelist
The science fiction of Algis Budrys showed literary artistry.If Algirdas Budrys–who signed his work “Algis Budrys” and answered to “Ajay” among the regular Americans with whom he lived–maintained an...
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