(Phys.org) —Researchers have married two biological imaging technologies, creating a new way to learn how good cells go bad.

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Apr 25, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Researchers from Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique that might one day reveal in higher detail than ever before the composition and characteristics of the ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 21, 2013 4.3 / 5 (9) 14 |

The planet Earth will die – if not before, then when the Sun collapses. This is going to happen in approximately seven billion years. In the universe however the death of suns and planets is an everyday ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 17, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 7

The nucleus at the heart of an atom is held together by a subtle balance between the nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons and the electric repulsion that tries to fling the positively charged protons ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 07, 2012 4.8 / 5 (18) 8 |

In September 2012 an experiment at the TRIUMF accelerator complex reached a milestone. The FrPNC collaboration —-short hand for Francium Parity Non-conservation—-succeeded in trapping several kinds of ...

Physics - General Physics

Oct 29, 2012 4.9 / 5 (16) 0

(Phys.org)—A common theme of science fiction movies and books is the idea that we're all living in a simulated universe—that nothing is actually real. This is no trivial pursuit: some of the greatest minds ...

Physics - General Physics

Oct 12, 2012 4.2 / 5 (57) 167 |

(Phys.org)—At the LHC accelerator at CERN, collisions between protons and lead nuclei were established last week, for the first time in the ALICE detector. ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 17, 2012 4.9 / 5 (8) 4

(AP)—A top defense industry official reportedly says Russia plans to develop its own sea-based missile interceptor program similar to the U.S. Aegis system.

Technology - Other

Aug 31, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 11

Heartened by a glimpse of what may be the Higgs boson, scientists at the CERN physics lab are smashing particles with new vigour in a quest to understand why matter has mass and other riddles of the natural ...

Physics - General Physics

Aug 01, 2012 3.6 / 5 (7) 11

A nearly 50-year bid to explain a riddle of fundamental matter faces a key moment on Wednesday when physicists unveil fresh data in their search for a particle called the Higgs boson.

Physics - General Physics

Jul 04, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

Only one in four Americans favors Israel conducting a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, finds a new University of Maryland poll. Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) favor the United States and other major powers ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Mar 13, 2012 4.9 / 5 (8) 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- The superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion reactor (cost: 16 billion euros = $21.2 billion) are unable to withstand the planned forty to sixty thousand charge cycles. Barring a solution, the ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 08, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 4

A computer virus that affected the US military's drone fleet last month was not "specifically" aimed at the unmanned aircraft's network, the head of US Strategic Command said Tuesday. ...

Technology - Other

Oct 18, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an atom, like most everything else, is more complicated than we first thought. Just how much more complicated is the subject of a Petascale Early Science project led by Oak ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 13, 2011 4.8 / 5 (19) 17 |

The force that governs some of the reactions that keep our sun shining is not quite as weak as scientists had previously thought. As a consequence, our estimation of how energetic the sun actually is just ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 13, 2011 4.7 / 5 (22) 58 |