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Extra large carbon

An exotic form of carbon has been found to have an extra large nucleus, dwarfing even the nuclei of much heavier elements like copper and zinc, in experiments performed in a particle accelerator in Japan. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Record-breaking LHC collisions offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier

(PhysOrg.com) -- In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (40) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Chemists discover how antiviral drugs bind to and block flu virus

Antiviral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading by attaching to a site within a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, according to a research project led ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Promising new neuroimaging techniques for early detection of Alzheimer's disease

Investigators from the International Center for Biomedicine and the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Center for Bioinformatics of the Universidad de Talca, have discovered that two drugs, the benzimidazole derivatives ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Glasgow scientists predict mass of new particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the University of Glasgow has predicted the mass of a new particle which would help explain one of the fundamental forces of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma

After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Team Shines Cosmic Light on Missing Ordinary Matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists, led by University of Maryland astronomer Stacy McGaugh, has found that individual galactic objects have less ordinary matter, relative to dark matter, than does the Universe ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Iowa State physicists beginning to see data from the Large Hadron Collider

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Iowa State University physicists who took winter trips to the Large Hadron Collider for meetings and experimental work are starting to see real data from the planet's biggest science ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Report suggests similar effectiveness among options for managing low-risk prostate cancer

A comprehensive appraisal of the management and treatment options for low-risk prostate cancer found that the rates of survival and tumor recurrence are similar among the most common treatment approaches, although costs can ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adjusting acidity with impunity

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technique ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Accelerators and Light Sources of Tomorrow (Part 2: Accelerating with Light)

Accelerators are far from achieving the highest energies their builders aspire to, but size and cost may limit the kinds of facilities funding agencies can support. In the future, new kinds of machines will ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers are on the path to creating nano-MRI images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers are devising methods to detect the magnetic fields of individual electrons and atomic nuclei, which they hope to use to make a nanoscale version of magnetic resonance imaging.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Large Hadron Collider preparing 2010 new science restart

At its 153rd session today, the CERN Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 3

An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Large Hadron Collider produces first physics results

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (39) | comments 3