New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma
(DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) A physicist has created a new system that will let scientists control the energy and rotation of plasma in real time...
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A pocket-sized retina camera, no dilating required
Credit: Bailey Shen. It's the part of the eye exam everyone hates: the pupil-dilating eye drops. The drops work by opening the pupil and preventing...
Tracing down linear ubiquitination
Credit: Koraljka Husnjak using PyMOL software FRANKFURT. Ubiquitin is a small protein that can be linked to other cellular proteins, thereby controlling and modulating their...
TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the...
Molecular scale transporter with a twist, powered by liquid crystal defects
Defects that break the symmetry of otherwise orderly material are called topological defects. In solid crystals, they are called dislocations because they interrupt the regularly...
Hubble’s glittering frisbee galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This image from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a section of NGC 1448, a spiral galaxy located about 50...
SwRI-led team focusing on safety chosen for NASA’s SSERVI
Boulder, Colo. -- March 20, 2017 -- NASA announced it has selected a new team led by Southwest Research Institute to its Solar System Exploration...
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