Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Mechanical Forces Influence Gene Expression: New Insights

Scientists understand the chemistry involved in gene expression, but they know little about the physics. The U-M group is believed to be the first to actually…

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Short Light Pulses Boost Quantum Entanglement Research

Physicists of the group of Prof. Harald Weinfurter (at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching,…

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Breakthrough Could Change Sampling Technology Forever

“Sampling” technology is central to the operation of these devices and in general to the field of digital communications. Increasing the bandwidth of the…

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Black Hole Hunters Discover Record-Distant Stellar Masses

The stellar-mass black holes [1] found in the Milky Way weigh up to ten times the mass of the Sun and are certainly not be taken lightly, but, outside our own…

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Single Photons Observed at Faster-Than-Light Speeds

This experimental demonstration confirms intriguing quantum-physics predictions that light's transit time through complex multilayered materials need not…

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Graphene Breakthrough: Exciting Advances from Linköping University

These promising results have been published in an online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The research group at Linköping University of…

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Proba-2 Satellite Unveils New Insights About the Sun

At a press conference on Tuesday at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, the team behind the small satellite declared themselves extremely happy with…

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Researchers to Study the Surface of Titan

Vincent Chevrier, assistant research professor in the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, conducted preliminary studies in a planetary…

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Levitating Magnet Paves New Path for Clean Energy Innovation

Fusion has been a cherished goal of physicists and energy researchers for more than 50 years. That's because it offers the possibility of nearly endless…

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Diagnosing PTSD with Magnetism: New Advances Revealed

The findings, published today, Wednesday, 20 January, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Neural Engineering, have sprung from advances in magnetoencephalography…

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Tying Light in Knots: New Insights for Laser Technology

Understanding how to control light in this way has important implications for laser technology used in wide a range of industries. Dr Mark Dennis from the…

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Novel Zoom Objective Enhances UAV Imaging Capabilities

An small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) circles above the ground, capturing the typical green of a coniferous forest or the radiated heat from a town. The…

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ExoMars: Exploring Martian Atmosphere and Mysterious Methane

Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus on understanding the rarest constituents of the martian atmosphere, including the mysterious methane…

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Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy

Astronomers were surprised to find that star-formation activities in the outer regions of NGC 2976 have been virtually asleep because they shut down millions…

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NASA's Rosetta "Alice" spectrometer reveals Earth's ultraviolet fingerprint in Earth flyby

One of the instruments aboard Rosetta is the NASA-funded ultraviolet spectrometer, Alice, which is designed to probe the composition of the comet's atmosphere…

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Nanodiamond Breakthrough Boosts MRI Signal Strength

A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal…

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