Archive for October 2013

#11. Record Breaking Solar Cell Approaches 45% Efficiency

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems recently announced the development of a multijunction photovoltaic cell with 44.7% e...

Saturn is so beautiful that it would be next to impossible to pick what would be my favorite picture of it ever. Impossible until now. B...

Microgravity A comparison between the combustion of a candle on Earth (left) and in a microgravity environment, such as that found on th...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ninth space station ...

Los Angeles: A NASA spacecraft bound for Jupiter will swing by Earth to get the boost it needs to arrive at the giant gas planet in 20...

Echoes of Supernova Fireworks marked the solar system's birth, and we have found echoes of one of the blasts. The oldest kno...

Feel and Touch Technology Disney researchers found a way to let you “feel” the texture of an object on a touchscreen. The technique us...

Sky Events of the Week Jupiter’s moon Io and its tiny shadow sweep across the giant planet’s face back in 1999, as snapped by the Hubble ...

Blue Fire Resembling a fiery blue marble, the sun is captured in this dramatic extreme-ultraviolet-light image by NASA's STEREO spac...

BLACK HOLES A black hole is a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping.The theory of ge...