Together with their Spanish colleagues from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional and the University of Cantabria, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for…
Their research is being presented this week at the first Triennial Earth-Sun Summit meeting between the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division…
When a crystal lattice is excited by a laser pulse, waves of jostling atoms can travel through the material at close to one sixth the speed of light, or…
“To get to this point in time, we had to overcome a number of engineering challenges,” said Brent Robertson, the deputy project manager of the Magnetospheric…
A year before Albert Einstein came up with the special theory of relativity, or E=mc2, physicists predicted the existence of something else: cyclotron…
Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California Observatories, and Tennessee State…
Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured the first high-resolution images of the flaring magnetic structures known as solar flux…
“You can imagine that with large protein complexes made from many different, smaller subunits there are many ways for them to be assembled. These can end up…
The ultimate aim is to construct a multi-mission-capable space utility vehicle, while accelerating the overall development process for this critical capability…
In their recent publication in “Nature Nanotechnology”, NIM graduate Florian Schülein and his supervisor NIM-Professor Hubert Krenner at the chair of…
Using fluorescence microscopy to observe the Volvox embryos, the researchers were able to test a mathematical model of morphogenesis – the origin and…
Daejeon, Republic of Korea, April 23, 2015–Optical tweezers have been used as an invaluable tool for exerting micro-scale force on microscopic particles and…
Much like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to scan the interior of the human body, the emerging technique of “picosecond ultrasonics,” a type of…
As the search continues for Earth-size planets orbiting at just the right distance from their star, a region termed the habitable zone, the number of…
Astronomers building an Earth-sized virtual telescope capable of photographing the event horizon of the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way have extended…
How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer – how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was…