News tagged with inner structure

'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Quasicrystal is extraterrestrial in origin

A rare and exotic mineral, so unusual that it was thought impossible to exist, came to Earth on a meteorite, according to an international team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists. The discovery ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (37) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify novel approach to view inner workings of viruses

Since the discovery of the microscope, scientists have tried to visualize smaller and smaller structures to provide insights into the inner workings of human cells, bacteria and viruses. Now, researchers at the National Institute ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Magnetism Governs Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though a year has passed since the discovery of a new family of high-temperature superconductors, a viable explanation for the iron-based materials’ unusual talent remains elusive. But a team ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0