Scientists have used an ultra-bright pulse of X-ray light to turn an atom in a molecule briefly into a sort of electromagnetic black hole. Unlike a black hole in space, the X-rayed a...
A new simulation provides the first mechanism to explain why plasma from hypervelocity impacts generates electromagnetic radiation WASHINGTON, D.C., May 2, 2017 – When spacecraft an...
This can be useful for chemical processing, or it can be damaging to materials and living tissues. This ultraviolet radiation is invisible but contains more energy than the visible l...
That contribution was first confirmed by James Keeler on April 9, 1895. That contribution was first confirmed by James Keeler on April 9, 1895. Through the next hundred years another...
Sometimes the sun releases solar flares and coronal mass ejections—huge eruptions of charged particles—which contribute to space weather and can interfere with satellites and telecom...
Researchers in the laboratory of Mikhail Shapiro, assistant professor of chemical engineering and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, have invented a new method to link...
The detector will now join in the search for gravitational waves with the US-based Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO), which has two detectors locat...
This bending of light allows astronomers to measure the distribution of gravity around galaxies, even up to distances a hundred times larger than the galaxy itself. Brouwer and her t...
They will squeeze the beams before collisions, replacing the quadrupoles in the LHC’s triplets. Two types of these new quadrupole magnets of two different lengths (4.5 metres in US a...
The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) was inaugurated at Warwick’s astronomical observing facility in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory of the Instituto de As...
LISA Pathfinder — shown before being encapsulated into a rocket for launch — allowed scientists to test technology for detecting gravitational waves. On 1 July, a satellite will wrap...
Using massive supercomputers, including Stampede2 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer...
Neurons are also linked by synapses in a way that is similar to how magnetic spins interact with each other. Synapse strength When we create a memory, it is stored in our brain as a...
There is a lot of work being done now to map the neuronal circuits that control behavior and emotions, says lead researcher Arnd Pralle, PhD, a professor of physics in the University...
They have been able to show in a controlled trial that targeting this area with magnetic pulses can improve the condition in some patients. This early clinical work is presented at t...
A team led by the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has for the first time discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers, or materials that...
The paper appeared in Scientific Reports. Oleg Gusev explains, «Fishes are one of the test organisms that give an opportunity to outline space flight effects on one’s health. These d...
In a study in Science, researchers Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski describe a new coding technique for maximizing the data-storage capacity of DNA molecules. In a new study in Scienc...
The coil was connected to a capacitor, which discharged an electric current to create a split-second magnetic pulse inside the coil, about 10 times weaker than the magnetic field gen...
In the past, most research on iron alloys in the core has focused only on the iron and a single alloy, says Hirose. The researchers were surprised to find that when they examined the...
The most commonly used FDA-approved antidote—Pralidoxime (2-PAM)—disengages the organophosphate molecule from the AChE protein, which can return to normal functions. Over the next fo...
The cell cycle is the system through which a cell grows and divides. DNA damage suppresses CDK activity, which prevents progression to M phase. The study further found that the accum...
Our innovation in MRI technology requires a total redesign of nearly all of the scanner components, not just an incremental change, said lead researcher David Feinberg, an adjunct pr...
Physicist Albert Einstein was the first to describe the effect fully, and received a Nobel Prize for his work. What is the photoelectric effect? Each particle of light, called a phot...
The Cygnus spacecraft reenters the Earth’s atmosphere, as observed by Expedition 40 crewmembers aboard the space station. 3-D cell culturing in space may lead to improved drug develo...