Mark Hoffman : Science World Report

Aug 13, 2013 06:53 PM EDT

More Realistic Simulated Cloth for More Realistic Video Games and Movies

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new model to simulate with unprecedented accuracy on the computer the way cloth and light interact. The new model can be used in animated movies and in video games to make cloth look more realistic.

Aug 13, 2013 05:57 PM EDT

Suborbital Rocket With Student Experiments Launched Today

A Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital rocket carrying experiments developed by university students nationwide in the RockSat-X program was successfully launched at 6 a.m. EDT, August 13, from NASA's launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Aug 13, 2013 04:18 PM EDT

New Batch of Biological Experiments in Orbit Selected for ISS

Studying the science of biology in microgravity opens a world of possibilities: Research ranges from plant growth to cell growth and from bacterial virulence to strength in human bones.

Aug 12, 2013 11:28 PM EDT

Experiments With Strongest Terahertz Laser Yield Ultrafast Magnetization Milestone

A terahertz laser developed at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute makes it possible to control a material's magnetisation at a timescale of picoseconds (0.000,000,000,001 seconds).

Aug 12, 2013 06:08 PM EDT

The Story of Graphene and One of the Key Researchers Behind It

Pure curiosity led him to embark on graphene research. Then, the hype surrounding the miracle material hit with full force. Now Sergey Kubatkin hardly has time in the lab anymore for what he really wants to spend time with: his own experiments.

Aug 12, 2013 04:46 PM EDT

Huge Ocean-Filling Amount of Water on Mars Revealed by Subsurface Radar

There is much more to Mars than meets the eye. By using the radar on Mars Express, we can see several kilometres below the surface to see what lies beneath.

Aug 12, 2013 03:53 PM EDT

Revolutionary Technology Reveals How Cancer Chromosome Abnormalities Form in Cells

For the first time, scientists have directly observed events that lead to the formation of a chromosome abnormality that is often found in cancer cells. The abnormality, called a translocation, occurs when part of a chromosome breaks off and becomes attached to another chromosome.

Aug 09, 2013 10:05 PM EDT

Docking Space Truck HTV-4 to the ISS at the Robotics Workstation

At the robotics workstation in the International Space Station's Cupola, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in onboard training activity in preparation for the grapple and berthing of the Japanese "Kounotori" H2 Transfer Vehicle-4 (HTV-4), successfully executed ...

Aug 09, 2013 09:39 PM EDT

How to Mine Asteroids: Learn From NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

Asteroids could one day be a vast new source of scarce material if the financial and technological obstacles can be overcome. Asteroids are lumps of metals, rock and dust, sometimes laced with ices and tar, which are the cosmic "leftovers" from the solar system's formation about 4.5 billion years ag...

Aug 09, 2013 05:41 PM EDT

Nanoscience Experiments: Molecules Form 2-D Patterns Never Before Observed

Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Johannes Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago -- and that more recently have caught the eye of both artists and crystallographers -- can now be seen in the laboratory.

Aug 09, 2013 04:26 PM EDT

Constructing a 3D Map of Cosmic Large-Scale Structure

An international team led by astronomers from Kyoto University, the University of Tokyo and the University of Oxford has released its first version of a 3D map of the universe from its FastSound project, which is surveying galaxies in the universe over nine billion light-years away.

Aug 09, 2013 02:40 PM EDT

Antimatter Experiment at CERN Calls for Crowdsourced Help

Ever wondered what happens when you drop antimatter? The antimater experiment AEGIS at CERN needs your help to analyse experimental results to figure out how antimatter is affected by gravity. Just join the dots to reconstruct particle tracks and your contribution could be included in an upcoming sc...