Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at Florida State University, that picture has just been shattered by a new ...

You'll find this terrific open cluster midway between 5th-magnitude Sigma Cassiopeiae and 6th-magnitude Rho Cas. This group ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rippling egg: vortex-like waves spread out on the cell membrane of a starfish egg. (Courtesy: Nikta Fakhri and colleagues/MIT) Ripples that appear on the surfaces of newly fertilized eggs closely ...

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 ...

The genetics behind spiral growth patterns is an area of active study, with recent research uncovering differences in the ...

A logarithmic spiral with a diameter of 500 μm, approximately half the diameter of a sewing needle. Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led ...