Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at ...

The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space ...

Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 26 (Jun. 30, 2009), pp. 10499-10504 (6 pages) Nacre is an exquisitely structured biocomposite of the ...

(Nanowerk News) In their new study ("Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses"), physicists Anthony Starace and Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap report an unusual ...

Six spectacular spiral galaxies are seen in a clear new light in images from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The pictures were ...

A study of spiral patterns found in galaxies like our Milky Way could overturn the theory of how the spiral arm features form and evolve. Since 1960s, the most widely accepted explanation has been ...

A typical daisy is a star-like flower. It features a fringe of white or colored petals and a central disk of tubular florets. Each floret is itself a tiny flower. The tightly packed florets at a daisy ...