Search results for author:(Stuart Mason Dambrot)

Nanophysics Apr 22, 2014

Bright lights, small crystals: Scientists use nanoparticles to capture images of single molecules

When imaging at the single-molecule level, small irregularities known as heterogeneities become apparent – features that are lost in higher-scale, so-called ensemble imaging. At the same time, it has until recently been ...

Quantum Physics Apr 2, 2014

A cure for clashing qubits: Researchers successfully entangle different-color photons

(Phys.org) —While two-photon interference is an important way of entangling independent identical photons, it does not handle different-color photons with the same aplomb. Recently, scientists at the University of Science ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 27, 2014

Of mice and molecules: In vivo photoacoustic imaging using semiconducting polymer nanoparticles

(Phys.org) —Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid biomedical imaging modality, based on the photoacoustic effect, in which non-ionizing laser pulses are delivered into biological tissues. (More specifically, in the photoacoustic ...

General Physics Feb 26, 2014

Fusion, and friction, and fields! Oh, my! The rich and ubiquitous world of fluid dynamics

Fluid dynamics – a subset of the area of physics known as fluid mechanics – is concerned with the motion, or flow, of liquids and gases. Within fluid dynamics, a vortex is a region within a fluid where the flow is essentially ...

Nanophysics Feb 3, 2014

The twain finally meet: Nanowires and nanotubes combined to form intracellular bioelectronic probes

(Phys.org) —Miniaturized bioelectronic probes stand to transform biology and medicine by allowing measurement of intracellular components in vivo. Recently, scientists at Harvard University and Peking University designed, ...

Condensed Matter Jan 31, 2014

It's alive! Scientists combine liquid crystals and living bacteria

(Phys.org) —The prospect of integrated living organisms into a non-living substrate has long held a compelling appeal for those investigating active matter – the study of a type of easily-deformable out of equilibrium ...

Evolution Jan 28, 2014

Unpacking the past: Identifying a key evolutionary step in E. coli metabolism

(Phys.org) —Evolution is a process that takes place over long periods of time over which genetics and ecology may interact, producing novel phenotypic traits. Researchers previously found that after roughly 31,500 generations ...

Evolution Jan 24, 2014

The ties that bind: Recreating Darwinian ligand evolution in vitro

(Phys.org) —A key feature of certain chemicals is their ability to bind to other molecules – a property that emerged through evolution – but current chemical theory lacks the ability to design binders from first principles. ...

Biochemistry Dec 4, 2013

Two for the price of one: Single-molecule microscopy simultaneously monitors protein structure and function

(Phys.org) —Proteins accomplish something rather amazing: A protein can have many functions, with a given function being determined by the way they fold into a specific three-dimensional geometry, or conformations. Moreover, ...

General Physics Nov 28, 2013

Harmonic holograms: High-speed three-dimensional imaging captures biological dynamics

(Phys.org) —In the world of biomedical science, optical microscopy rules – and nonlinear optical microscopy, which uses ultrashort pulse lasers as the illumination source, allows researchers to glean much greater detail ...

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