Climate change may supersize sweet potatoes


Bridging Cities of Galaxies



Nebula new photo

Australian astrophotographer Dave Larkin used the Internet based Slooh Space Camera's Canary Island 20'' robotic telescope to capture this photo of the Lagoon Nebula


Big Idea Bring Back the "Cold Fusion" Dream

In 1989 Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann made a sensational claim that would have changed the world—had it been true. They said they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature using a simple tabletop device, thus creating a revolutionary clean energy source they called “cold fusion.”


Solar system’s birth record revised



Polystyrene atoms could surpass the real deal

SOMETIMES a copy can surpass the original. Imitation atoms made of microscopic polystyrene spheres have bonded with each other using the same three-dimensional geometries found in real molecules. These surrogate atoms could one day be used to build novel materials such as semiconductors that carry light rather than electricity.