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  1. Materials Science

    Knitting with nanotubes

    Researchers can draw fine yarns of carbon nanotubes from a reservoir of the microscopic cylinders.

    By Jessica Gorman
  2. Humans

    From the May 17, 1930, issue

    POLISH RHINOCEROS One of the most interesting of recent finds in paleontology has been the complete carcass of a Pleistocene rhinoceros, unearthed in an abandoned mine in the Starunia region in Poland. Skin, hair muscles, and all other tissues were well preserved, owing to the sealing up of the monster in a kind of oily […]

    By Science News
  3. Physics

    Putting the brakes on antihydrogen

    By mixing ultracold antiprotons and antielectrons, physicists have created the first atoms of antihydrogen that move at a leisurely enough pace for direct measurements of their properties.