Thu 15 May 2008
Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 graduate’s invention could replace (more…)
Computer users now can fly through the universe, viewing stars, planets and celestial bodies as an astronomer would, with Tuesday’s introduction of the Worldwide Telescope by Microsoft. The virtual service combines images and databases from every major telescope 
Six thousand years ago, northern Africa was a place of trees, grasslands, lakes and people. Today, it is the Sahara — a desolate area larger than Australia. Lake Yoa, in northeastern Chad, has remained a lake through the millennia and is still a lake today, surrounded by hot desert. Although little rain falls, Lake Yoa’s water is replenished from 
A new model of inner Earth constructed by Arizona State University researchers pulls past information and hypotheses into a coherent story to clarify mantle motion. “The past maybe two or three years there have been a lot of papers in Science and Nature about the deep 
