Eyeballing a black hole’s mass
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds wind shear taking a toll on tropical storm Jerry
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Tropical Storm Jerry continued to weaken as warnings were in effect for Bermuda on Sept. 24. Jerry...
Using light to speed up computation
PAXEL, a new type of photonic integrated circuit device that uses a novel computing architecture, shows promise for high-speed, energy-efficient...
Brown, Dartmouth researchers to explore materials, matter states for quantum technologies
Credit: Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. AND HANOVER, N.H. -- Quantum technologies have the potential to spur revolutions in computing, sensing,...
NASA sees Karen regain tropical storm status
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Caribbean Sea and used infrared light to obtain temperature information...
Wistar receives over $12M for clinical research on opioid use in HIV-infected people
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (September 24, 2019) -- The Wistar Institute was awarded two major grants totaling more...
Do children’s brains really get thinner?
Neuroscientists provide striking results that suggest the brains of children likely do not thin as much as expectedCredit: MPI CBS...
Research could help flexible technology last longer, avoid critical failures
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - Whether from regular use, overuse or abuse, every device...
Christian Smorra receives ERC starting grant for antimatter research
Funding for the development of a trap for the transport of antiprotons from CERN to Mainz; researchers expect to greatly...
Quantum destabilization of a water sandwich
Credit: © 2019 KAUST From raindrops rolling off the waxy surface of a waterlily leaf, to the efficiency of desalination...
Iridium ‘loses its identity’ when interfaced with nickel
Rutgers-led study could lead to greater manipulation of quantum materials and deeper understanding of the quantum state for novel electronicsCredit:...
NHGRI funds centers for advancing the reference sequence of the human genome
The two centers will be part of a new Human Genome Reference ProgramCredit: Ernesto Del Aguila III, NHGRI. New grants...
Exploring a strategy that leads to mutual cooperation without non-cooperative actions
Credit: Hitoshi Yamamoto Cooperation in mutual competition is a basic mechanism for the prosperity of human society. However, the simplest...
Researchers can now place single ions into solids
New technique enables implantation of individual ions into crystals with an accuracy of 35 nanometersCredit: Ill./©: QUANTUM, Institute of Physics,...