She and her adviser, Giovanni Zocchi, still don’t know exactly why these patterns arise, but the team suggests that the ...

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies. The largest "grand design" spirals can host a dozen or more individual arms. But recently ...

Chiral semiconductors use a few tricks from Mother Nature The same brightness with much less energy usage Big implications for future computers as well as displays A breakthrough new OLED technology ...

A logarithmic spiral with a diameter of 500 μm ... occurred fortuitously when Wong made a small mistake while attempting to bind DNA to the metal film. “I was trying to develop a measurement technique ...

However, according to a recent study, there is a surprising spiral pattern in the inner Oort Cloud that runs much deeper than a random sprinkling of frozen debris. The Oort Cloud is usually divided ...

Helix’s USP is that it makes a mattress to suit every body type and sleeping style. The Helix Twilight is a firm mattress for side sleepers — which, on paper, sounds like a bit of a dichotomy.

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns ... attempting to bind DNA to the metal film.

G-quadruplexes and Cancer "The DNA double helix is one of the most recognizable ... that it shifts between two states -- a flat and a spiral shape -- as it encircles DNA strands.