Images of the inside of a domestic fly taken at the University of Granada using a microtomograph—an instrument that produces high resolution images by scanning tiny animals—has won the prize for Best ...

Biology - Other

Jun 18, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 1

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a method to visualize structures with optical contrast in biological tissue. Despite the strong optical scattering in tissue, high resolution images in the visible and near infrared ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Jun 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

Unmanned drones, instead of being harbingers of death, should become a vital technological tool in the conservation fight and in delivering vital goods to remote areas, the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Jun 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 2

(Phys.org) —NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide—dry ice—may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 11, 2013 4.4 / 5 (7) 1 |

Lying just above the sun's surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: Zones of ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

Classical X-ray radiographs provide information about internal, absorptive structures of organisms such as bones. Alternatively, X-rays can also image soft tissues throughout early embryonic development of ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 16, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

(Phys.org) —In a dark, starless patch of intergalactic space, astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 08, 2013 4.8 / 5 (10) 15 |

(Phys.org) —Capturing carbon dioxide and storing it in underground rock formations is one proposed solution to mitigate climate change. New knowledge about the chemical reactions between stored carbon dioxide ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 06, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

The cellular interior is criss-crossed by protein-based cables known as microtubules, each formed from 13 'protofilaments' composed of the protein tubulin. Microtubules are also associated with a host of ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Amateur astronomers in Russia made a discovery last week any professional would envy – it seems they may have identified the remnants of the ill-fated Soviet Mars 3 lander, 30 years after it lost contact ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Apr 19, 2013 4.6 / 5 (5) 1

(Phys.org) —Ultrafast high-resolution imaging in real time could be a reality with a new research discovery led by the University of Melbourne.

Physics - General Physics

Apr 18, 2013 4.9 / 5 (13) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 11, 2013 4.7 / 5 (9) 1 |

A team of researchers has made a major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressures. For the first time, they developed a way to get around the severe distortions ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Apr 09, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 03, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2