Andrew Iams, a materials research engineer at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a ...

Quasicrystals are like ordinary crystals but with a few key differences. The quasicrystals found in this study form the corners of 20-sided shape called an icosahedron. To prove that he found an ...

Painter and illustrator Robert E. McGinnis, who created sexy posters for the James Bond franchise as well as numerous other films, magazine illustrations and book covers, died March 10 in Old ...

LOS ANGELES — Betty White, the late, beloved actor of “Golden Girls” fame, was celebrated with a new U.S. Postal Service stamp at a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Los Angeles Zoo on ...

The chance to draw Betty White for a U.S. postage stamp was an easy “yes” for Boston-based illustrator Dale Stephanos. “I said ‘yes’ before they finished the sentence,” he recalls in ...