Island retreat: Fuel injection helps reduce magnetic island instabilities
Injecting pellets of frozen hydrogen fuel into the plasma of a fusion reactor helps repair tears in the surrounding magnetic field, improving the prospects for...
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New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmas
Understanding fast ions, critical to heating plasmas, could help turn a liability into an assetCredit: DIII-D National Fusion Facility. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--To create a practical...
World record acceleration: Zero to 7.8 billion electron volts in 8 inches
New technique doubles the highest electron energy ever produced by a laser plasma accelerator, bringing the promise of tera electron volt electron-positron colliders one step...
A star is born: Using lasers to study how star stuff is made
Probing nucleosynthesis in star-like conditions using the world's biggest laser at NIFCredit: Don Jedlovec, LLNL Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--On a typical day at the world's biggest...
California’s crashing kelp forest
How disease, warming waters, and ravenous sea urchins combined to kill the kelp and close the red abalone fisheryCredit: Peggy Foreman, NOAA Fisheries First the...
Real texture for lab-grown meat
Researchers grow muscle cells on edible fibersCredit: Harvard University Lab-grown or cultured meat could revolutionize food production, providing a greener, more sustainable, more ethical alternative...
National poll: Half of parents have declined kids’ play date invites
Many parents aren't comfortable with their child playing at another family's home -- but only 1 in 4 have been asked about safety issues by...
Mayo Clinic study: 20% of patients are prescribed opioids after cardiac device implantation surgery
This large US study found that 1 in 5 patients was prescribed opioids after having a pacemaker or similar device implanted and 80 percent had...
Toad disguises itself as deadly viper to avoid attack — world-first study reports
Decades of fieldwork uncover hissing and strike-warning impersonations by toadCredit: Photograph by Colin Tilbury. The first study of a toad mimicking a venomous snake reveals...
Data mining applied to scholarly publications to finally reveal Earth’s biodiversity
Credit: P Kishor (Plazi) At a time when a million species are at risk of extinction, according to a recent UN report, ironically, we don't...
All is FAIR in biodiversity research: Mandatory data audit at Pensoft’s journals
A thorough data auditing workflow ensures that datasets described in data papers across Pensoft's OA journal portfolio are fit-to-use prior to peer reviewCredit: Pensoft Building...
$1.2 million in grants to fund search for diabetes cure
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - A biomedical engineering professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York is trying...
Plant-based foods and Mediterranean diet associated with healthy gut microbiome
Credit: UEG (Barcelona, October 21, 2019) A study presented at UEG Week 2019 has shown that specific foods could provide protection for the gut, by...
Autism spectrum disorder risk linked to insufficient placental steroid
Single ALLO injection during pregnancy was enough to avert both the cerebellar abnormalities and the aberrant social behaviors in experimental modelsCredit: Children's National Hospital CHICAGO-A...
Salk scientists awarded $14.3 million to map circuitry for movement
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA, CA--(October 18, 2019) A team of Salk scientists led by Professor Martyn Goulding has been awarded $14.3 million over five...
