News
- Physics
Electrons rock and roll in nanotubes
New probes of tiny carbon nanotubes reveal that the wavelike, quantum nature of electrons plays a role in tube properties and may even make possible novel electronic components that harness quantum effects.
- Astronomy
Light’s Debut: Good Morning, Starshine!
Astronomers have at last detected signs of one of the earliest and least-understood eras in the universe: the murky time just before the first stars and quasars flooded the cosmos with light.
- Animals
Bat bites bird. . .in migration attacks
The largest bat in Europe may hunt down migrating birds.
- Tech
New method lights a path for solar cells
Using a technique in which chemical ingredients assemble themselves, a research team has developed a potentially inexpensive way of making solar cells.
