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Berkeley scientists discover an 'instant cosmic classic' supernova

A supernova discovered yesterday is closer to Earth—approximately 21 million light-years away—than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers believe…

Physics & Astronomy

Neutrino Mass Insights: New Fermilab Experiment Findings

A result released today (August 25) from the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory appears to quell concerns…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Healthy Habits in Preschool Child-Care Facilities

Eating and physical activity habits for a lifetime can develop at an early age. As the use of preschool child care increases and the prevalence of childhood…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Imaging Method Reveals Insights into Cell Growth

Led by electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel Popescu, the research team developed a new imaging method called spatial light interference…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Science Teams Prepare to Study Asteriod Samples

“Our target asteroid contains a record of the conditions before the solar system was formed, so you can think of the asteroid as a time capsule,” Clark said….

Environmental Conservation

Bolt Your Door: Invasive Species Attacking Texas

Anna Armitage and Antonietta Quigg, marine biologists on the Galveston campus, have been studying how numerous plants and some animals not native to Texas have…

Physics & Astronomy

CERN’s CLOUD Experiment Provides Unprecedented Insight Into Cloud Formation

The CLOUD results show that trace vapours assumed until now to account for aerosol formation in the lower atmosphere can explain only a tiny fraction of the…

Life & Chemistry

Three-Part Handoff Delivers Proteins to Membrane Surface

Tail-anchored proteins, the molecular machines that make up approximately five percent of the membrane proteins in a cell, are known to have their own special…

Physics & Astronomy

The atomic clock with the world's best long-term accuracy is revealed after evlauation

The clock is one of an elite group of caesium fountain clocks that have been built by the timing labs in Europe, the United States, and Japan as their national…

Technology Offerings

New Imaging Method Reveals Lung Microstructure Insights

Microstructural changes in small airways are characteristic for lung disease such as chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD). Spirometry is the common…

Technology Offerings

Gentle Method for Creating HgSe and HgTe Nanocrystals

In a hitherto unknown, wet-chemical redox reaction, which can be very easily and rapidly accomplished, largely spherical HgSe or HgTe particle clusters having…

Technology Offerings

Efficient Handling of 68Ge/Ga Generator Eluates for PET

The positron emitting radionuclide 68Ga (T½ = 68 min) shows great potential for clinical Positron Emission Tomography (PET). The present procedure purifies…

Life & Chemistry

The pancreas as we’ve never seen it before

With the aid of this imaging technology, they have now described aspects of how the pancreas develops during embryonic development and how the so-called islets…

Health & Medicine

Study identifies chemical changes in brains of people at risk for Alzheimer's disease

The study of 311 people in their 70s and 80s with no cognitive problems, from the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, used an advanced brain imaging…

Life & Chemistry

George Mason Team Discovers Key Factor in HIV Infection

A George Mason University researcher team has revealed the specific process by which the HIV virus infects healthy T cells—a process previously unknown. The…

Life & Chemistry

New Discovery Aims to Protect Cells in Neurodegenerative Research

Scientists at Northwestern University report a surprising discovery that offers a possible new route for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. In a…

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