A space telescope peering into the Milky Way galaxy’s dusty core has spied a colossal twisted ribbon of supercooled material. Until now astronomers had only seen bits and pieces of the ribbon ...

A thin, flat, multiconductor cable that is widely used for internal peripheral connections in electronic systems. In a PC, a 34-wire ribbon connects the floppy drive (if present) to the ...

A wire that is just four atoms wide and one atom tall, yet works just as well as the ordinary copper wires running behind your wall, was recently created by an international team of scientists.