Love, exercise and, new research shows, an infrared laser can make a heart beat faster.Scientists at Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University…
View a webcast with the citizen scientists who discovered a rotating pulsar, the Einstein@Home director, and an Arecibo researcher; artist's simulations of the…
A nova is a sudden, short-lived brightening of an otherwise inconspicuous star. The outburst occurs when a white dwarf in a binary system erupts in an enormous…
More than a century ago, at the dawn of modern quantum mechanics, the Noble Prize-winning physicist Neils Bohr predicted so-called “quantum jumps.” He…
The team is deploying a 4-kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Canada. A second 60-kilogram chamber…
The image was obtained at the start of a very ambitious survey of our neighbouring galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, and their environment.The leader of the…
In many chemical elements and their compounds electrons exercise a huge influence over one another. In such cases, physicists talk of electronically correlated…
The galaxy, known as NGC 4911, contains rich lanes of dust and gas near its center. These are silhouetted against glowing newborn star clusters and iridescent…
Angioplasty involves threading a slender, balloon-tipped tube from an artery in the groin to the trouble spot in the artery of the heart. The balloon is then…
“We are looking for ways to build magnetic systems that can manipulate atoms,” says author Thomas Hayward of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom….
Several e-reader products on the market today use electrophoretic displays, in which each pixel consists of microscopic capsules that contain black and white…
In research toward better understanding the dynamics behind high-temperature superconductivity, the ORNL scientists rewrote computational code for the…
Discovery of 45 rare neutron-rich isotopes provides clues to the stellar formation of heavy elementsMany of Earth’s resources, from copper to more precious…
These minerals were two of the first solids to form when an interstellar gas cloud collapsed to form the sun. Found in the Allende meteorite, they now carry…
An international team from the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (www.attoworld.de), led by Prof. Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics…
JILA is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). The research was…
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