Smaller Accelerators for Particle Physics?
WASHINGTON D.C., May 27, 2014 — It took every inch of the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile length to accelerate particles to energies high enough to discover the […]
New Lithium Battery Created in Japan
WASHINGTON D.C., May 20, 2014 — The long life of lithium ion batteries makes them the rechargeable of choice for everything from implantable medical devices to wearable […]
Water Caged in Buckyballs
WASHINGTON D.C. May 20, 2014 — In a new paper in The Journal of Chemical Physics, produced by AIP Publishing, a research team in the United Kingdom […]
MEMS Nanoinjector for Genetic Modification of Cells
WASHINGTON D.C. May 13, 2014 — The ability to transfer a gene or DNA sequence from one animal into the genome of another plays a critical role […]
The Physics of Ocean Undertow
WASHINGTON D.C. May 13, 2014 — People standing on a beach often feel the water tugging the sand away from under their feet. This is the undertow, […]
Predator-Prey Made Simple
WASHINGTON D.C. May 6, 2014 — A team of U.K. researchers has developed a way to dramatically reduce the complexity of modeling “bistable” systems which involve the […]
Working to Cure ‘Dry Eye’ Disease
WASHINGTON D.C. May 6, 2014 — The eye is an exquisitely sensitive system with many aspects that remain somewhat of a mystery—both in the laboratory and in […]
Proving Uncertainty: New Insight into Old Problem
WASHINGTON D.C., April 29, 2014 — Nearly 90 years after Werner Heisenberg pioneered his uncertainty principle, a group of researchers from three countries has provided substantial new […]
Vacuum Ultraviolet Lamp of the Future Created in Japan
WASHINGTON D.C., April 22, 2014 — A team of researchers in Japan has developed a solid-state lamp that emits high-energy ultraviolet (UV) light at the shortest wavelengths […]