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First atomic X-ray laser created

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Biopixels: Researchers create living 'neon signs' composed of millions of glowing bacteria (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Using ionized plasmas as cheap sterilizers for developing world

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists have shown that ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial – able ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

U.S. team creates diamond aerogel in lab by emulating Mother Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working out of Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, have devised a process whereby an ordinary carbon aerogel is used as a base to create a new type ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

The promise of ion beam cancer therapy

For certain kinds of cancer, the most effective therapy does not use x-rays or gamma rays but beams of ions, the electrically charged cores of atoms, including hydrogen ions (protons) and heavier ions such ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Unpeeling atoms and molecules from the inside out

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show its unique ability ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Light, wind and fire: Beautiful image of a cosmic sculpture (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

First Test of New X-ray Laser Strips Neon Bare

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes a lot of energy to strip all ten electrons from an atom of neon. Doing it from the inside out, knocking away the most-closely-held, innermost electrons first, is an even rarer feat. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

What goes down, must come up: Geoscientists offer new model for degassing of Earth's mantle

A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4