Clocking electron movements inside an atom
New technique delivers resolution improvement in ultrafast processesCredit: Daniel Haynes / Jörg Harms An international consortium of scientists, initiated by Reinhard Kienberger, Professor of Laser...
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Dartmouth researchers pilot FLASH radiotherapy beam development for treatment of cancer
Dartmouth researchers convert a standard linear accelerator used for delivery of radiation therapy cancer treatment, to deliver an ultra-high-dose rate radiation therapy beam to patients...
Experimental evidence of an intermediate state of matter between a crystal and a liquid
Credit: Scientific Reports Scientists from the Joint Institute for High Temperatures Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)...
How dietary choice influences lifespan in fruit flies
Giving flies a choice of foods changes the chemical messaging in their brain that is responsible for coordinating metabolism, shortening their lifespan as a resultCredit:...
Improving long-term climate calculations
A new method reduces uncertainties in computer model estimations of climate change over thousands of years.Credit: TiPES/HP Climate researchers have found a simple but efficient...
NIH study compares low-fat, plant-based diet to low-carb, animal-based diet
Credit: Amber Courville and Paule Joseph, National Institutes of Health People on a low-fat, plant-based diet ate fewer daily calories but had higher insulin and...
Story tips: Volcanic microbes, unbreakable bonds and flood mapping
Credit: Anna-Louise Reysenbach/NSF, ROV Jason and 2018 ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Biology - Volcanic microbes Oak Ridge National Laboratory contributed to an international study that...
UN disaster aid is driven by humanitarian need rather than by strategic donor interests
Credit: Photo: Bernhard Folz A new study published in PNAS finds that aid provided by the United Nations (UN) in the aftermath of climate-related disasters...
Fishing out the bad apples: Novel quantitative method to assess the safety of food
Scientists from Korea develop an effective yet simple strategy to quantify histamine levels in fish samplesCredit: Unsplash Consumers of purchased foods have no way of...
As the American hemp industry grows, so does our understanding of hemp diseases
Credit: Lindsey D. Thiessen As hemp begins to reemerge as an important crop in the United States, scientists are beginning research into the diseases that...
DNA origami enables fabricating superconducting nanowires
Fabricating nanoelectronic circuits of the future just got a lot more interesting, thanks to DNA origamiCredit: Lior Shani, Philip Tinnefeld, Yafit Fleger, Amos Sharoni, Boris...
Scientists present novel approach for monitoring freshwater health
Study describes how the world's smallest portable DNA sequencing device helps simplify the monitoring of bacteria in freshwater ecosystemsCredit: Team PuntSeq (CC BY 4.0) Researchers...
New heat method kills pathogens with minimal damage to plants
Credit: William W. Turechek, Ole Myhrene, Janet Slovin, and Natalia A. Peres In the strawberry nursery industry, a nursery's reputation relies on their ability to...
Rethinking spin chemistry from a quantum perspective
Osaka City University breaks from convention with a true quantum algorithm that can calculate energy differences between the electronic ground and excited spin states of...
Using ancient fossils and gravitational-wave science to predict earth’s future
A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used knowhow from gravitational wave astronomy (used to find black holes in space) to study...
