A new laboratory tool which will allow scientists to build and move microscopic cells could lead to the development of better treatments for disease.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 2, 2015
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X-ray devices have long been used to see the inner structure of things, from bone breaks in the human body to the contents of luggage at airport security checkpoints. But to see life's chemistry and exotic materials at the ...
General Physics
Feb 3, 2015
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(Phys.org) —The Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has teamed up with Santa Monica-based RadiaBeam Systems to develop a device known as a dechirper, which will provide a new way of adjusting the ...
General Physics
Dec 4, 2014
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Almost every electronic device contains a transformer. An important material used in their construction is electrical steel. Researchers have found a way to improve the performance of electrical steel and manufacture it more ...
Engineering
Oct 1, 2014
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One of nature's mysteries is how plants survive impact by the huge amounts of energy contained in the sun's rays, while using this energy for photosynthesis. The hypothesis is that the light-absorbing proteins in the plant's ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 27, 2014
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At the Vienna University of Technology a system of coupled lasers has been created which exhibits truly paradoxical behaviour: An increase in energy supply switches the lasers off, reducing the energy can switch them on.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 15, 2014
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Biophysics researchers at the University of Michigan have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process that ...
Materials Science
Jul 13, 2014
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(Phys.org) —By levitating a bead of ceramic oxide, heating it with a 400-watt carbon dioxide laser, then shooting the molten material with X-rays and neutrons, scientists with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Argonne ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 2, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Optical scientists at the University of Arizona and the University of Central Florida have developed a technology capable of sending high-intensity laser beams through the atmosphere much farther than was possible ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 1, 2014
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that the Omega Laser Facility, a national user facility for NNSA that is located at and operated by the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics ...
General Physics
Nov 5, 2013
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