Powerful tiny things, precisely controllable: Nanotechnologists have developed sophisticated micro-floats that can arrange silicate spheres into letters, push cells into position and even climb...
Biologist Tamar Gutnick scratches "George" in the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna.
(Image: OIST)
They are famous for their slowness and longevity - giant turtles, on the...
Infrared images of butterflies: The bright areas are linked to the ability to cool radiation. (Image: Nanfang Yu and Cheng-Chia Tsai / Columbia Engineering)
Butterfly...
Artist's impression of the technically upgraded jellyfish. (Image: Rebecca Konte / Caltech)
Put in turbo gear: Researchers have equipped jellyfish with a kind of pacemaker...
Astronomers have followed the journey of phosphorus from star formation to comets by combining data from ALMA and the Rosetta probe. (Photo: ALMA (ESO...
The combination of ultra-short laser pulses (red) with a scanning tunneling microscope makes quantum processes visible like an electronic wave packet (colored) with atomic...
Artist's impression of a protostar that accretes and grows gas from a circumstellar disk. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt / SSC)
Massive stars do...
Gas giant or brown dwarf? (Image: dottedhippo / iStock)
Big gas planet or "failed" star? This question is difficult to answer for some massive celestial...
