SLAC Scientists Create First Atomic X-ray Laser
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the world’s first “atomic X-ray laser.” By aiming SLAC’s Linac Coherent…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the world’s first “atomic X-ray laser.” By aiming SLAC’s Linac Coherent…
Cornell researchers are using exploratory surgeries on mice to further their understanding of spinal cord injuries. By surgically implanting a window with a transparent panel…
Physicists from the Quantum Many-Body Systems division at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in collaboration with theoretical physicists from the University of Geneva have…
MIT researchers are studying how viruses use bacteria to support the replication of their own DNA. Viruses in phosphorus-starved regions of the ocean are able…
Scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute and the California Institute of Technology are studying how transparent roundworms communicate. In a new study, they report that…
Scientists are using powerful lasers to mimic the effects of supernovae, which are helping to reveal how the magnetic fields of galaxies may have been…
A new study has shown that skin cells harvested from patients with Alzheimer’s disease can be reprogrammed to form brain cells, offering clues to dementia…
If prehistoric hunters and gatherers had access to social networking sites, they would probably end up with networks that looked identical to modern ones, according…
After years of progress, scientists are now coming closer and closer to making real-world objects disappear from view. Researchers from the University of Texas at…
Experiments carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allowed scientists to control a 2-million-degree piece of matter. Researchers used…
Brigham Young University geologist Jani Radebaugh, alongside researchers from NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory, has put forth a plan that would send a done…
Based on the samples provided by U.S. Navy deep sea submersible Alvin, USC microbiologists discovered that life continues at hydrothermal vents even after they go…
A groundbreaking dendritic cell vaccine study is underway at the Center for Immunotherapy at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Researchers at RCPI began a phase 1…
The online community of Foldit has helped produce solutions that have evaded scientists for years. Initially funded by DARPA, this community consists of roughly 240,000…
The sun erupted on January 22-23, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, captured here in a movie by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The flare…
Rice University physicists built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom of potassium to demonstrate quantum mechanics and Newton’s…
Chemists Neal Devaraj and Itay Budin are working on the creation of a “synthetic cell.” Their goal is to create a living organism from non-living…
Using isotopes in rocks blown out of the Ubehebe Crater, scientists have discovered that this prehistoric volcanic explosion occurred far more recently than previously thought….