Mars Rover Finds Puzzling Organic Traces in First Soil Sample
Curiosity sees tantalizing hints of compounds needed for life, but further analysis is needed to make sure it's not contamination from Earth.
Materials
How to Measure Quantum Foam With a Tabletop Experiment
Physicists thought they could never measure the foam-like structure of spacetime. Now one theoretical physicist says it can be done using a laser and a block of glass
Physicists Laser Print Conducting Polymer Circuits
Solvents can cause problems in the manufacture of conducting polymer circuits. The answer is laser printing, say researchers
Physicists Build Laser Tweezers Controlled with Kinect
Now you can pick up and move micrometre-scale particles using your hands and arms thanks to a Kinect-controlled device called HoloHands
Medical Duct Tape That Goes Easy on the Skin
Pain-less Band-Aids may be in our future.
Google Earth Finds More Strange Patterns in the Chinese Desert
Google Earth reveals an 8 km line of artificial grid-like structures in the Chinese desert. Now one researcher says she know why it's there
Accelerated Evaporation, Oils Spills, and the Economics of Water Desalination
The surprise discovery of new way to accelerate the evaporation of oil could help clean up spills and desalinate water.
That's a Stretch: All-Rubber Speakers
"Smart rubber" speakers save on width without skimping on bass.
A Ribbon Cutting for 3-D Printing (Using 3-D Printed Scissors)
Cementing New York as a hub for 3-D printing.
Bottles, Bubbles, and Breakage
A firm slap of the hand will break a glass bottle filled with water. A new fluid dynamics video shows exactly why
