A Quick and Easy Scan Is a Reliable Predictor of Dementia
Long-term research has shown that a routine bone density scan may also detect calcified plaque build-up in the abdominal aorta, indicating if someone is more…
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Researchers Have Found a Way To “Turn Off” Peanut Allergies
Immune changes can cause peanut allergy remission The potential of new, more focused allergy treatments is now possible thanks to the identification of the key…
Dark Matter Experiment Set To Help Solve the Biggest Mystery in the Universe
Although we may still be in the dark about what dark matter is, we now have a better idea about what it isn’t. Australia’s first…
Discovery With “Profound Implications” – Secret Carbon Decisions Plants Are Making About Our Future
New research has revealed that plants make their own ‘secret’ decisions about how much carbon to release back into the atmosphere via a previously unknown…
New Laser Breakthrough for Gravitational Waves Will Test the Fundamental Limits of General Relativity
New laser breakthrough to help increase understanding of gravitational waves. Scientists have created a proof-of-concept setup of a new laser eigenmode sensor that offers over…
Gravitational Wave Scientists Pioneer New Laser Mode Sensor With Unprecedented Precision
Lasers support certain structures of light known as “eigenmodes.” An international collaboration of experts in gravitational waves, metasurfaces, and photonics has pioneered a new method…
New Technology To Improve Gravitational-Wave Detectors – World’s Most Sensitive Scientific Instruments
A new technology that can improve gravitational-wave detectors, one of the most sensitive instruments used by scientific researchers, has been pioneered by physicists at the…
A New Approach To Rapidly Localize Gravitational Waves To Coordinate Prompt Follow-Up Observations
Multimessenger astronomy is an emerging field that aims to study astronomical objects using different ‘messengers’ or sources, like electromagnetic radiation (light), neutrinos, and gravitational waves….
Ground-Breaking High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detector Reports Rare Events
A ground-breaking detector that aims to use quartz to capture high-frequency gravitational waves has been built by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for…
A Force From “Nothing” Used to Control and Manipulate Objects
A collaboration between researchers from The University of Western Australia and The University of California Merced has provided a new way to measure tiny forces…
New Simulation Shows What Happens When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide
Astronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as the Milky Way. It had been thought that…
Magnetic Stimulation Shifts Abnormal Neural Connections Towards Their Correct Locations
A newly published study demonstrated that weak sequential electromagnetic pulses on mice can shift abnormal neural connections towards their correct locations in the brain. Researchers…
Lunar Rock Samples Reveal Evidence of a Huge Meteorite Strike
Lunar rock samples reveal evidence of a huge meteorite strike 4.2 billion years ago. A WA geologist analyzing lunar rock samples collected during the Apollo…
Supersensitive Detectors to Aid in the Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Physicists around the world are currently focused on the commissioning of three enormous supersensitive detectors that will aid in the discovery of gravitational waves tenfold…
Improvements to LIGO Detector Will Allow Scientists to ‘Listen’ to Black Holes Forming
Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector will allow researchers to listen to the Big Bang and to black holes forming throughout the universe….
Astronomers Discover Two Galaxies that are Almost an Exact Match to the Milky Way
Using data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey, astronomers found 14 galaxy systems that are similar to the Milky Way, with two of those…
Molecular Code for How PPR Proteins Recognize their RNA Targets Discovered
A team of scientists have cracked a code underlying recognition of RNA molecules by a superfamily of RNA-binding proteins called pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins, providing…
