Make some noise: How background noise affects brain activity
University of Alberta scientists take neuroscience outside the lab, investigating how different sorts of background noise affect our focusCredit: John Ulan Have you ever found...
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SciLifeLab and AstraZeneca use cryo-EM to advance biomedicine
Research team of Alexey Amunts in collaboration with AstraZeneca unravel the extracellular region of the receptor tyrosine kinase RET involved in degenerative diseases.Credit: A. Amunts...
Find FH® machine learning model flags individuals with FH for first time at national level
FH Foundation study published online in the Lancet Digital Health and presented at FH Global SummitCredit: The FH Foundation ATLANTA, October 21, 2019 - The...
Impact: 60 years of shock wave research at Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia scientists tell the remarkable story of shock wave physics in post-World War II AmericaCredit: Crawford et al. 1994, Fig. 4, Copyright 1994, with permission...
Volcanic ash sparks a new discovery
New research finds that volcanic ash modifies the height, width and lifetime of a standing shock wave that can occur during volcanic eruptionsCredit: model and...
Gravity crystals: A new method for exploring the physics of white dwarf stars
Scientists study how charged particles arrange themselves into crystalline patterns and apply what they learn to explore the interiors of white dwarf starsCredit: Alexander Bataller...
Taking a new tangent to control pesky waves in fusion plasmas
New theory could help overcome a significant barrier to achieving fusion powerCredit: NSTX-U collaboration. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Fusion combines light elements in the form of plasma--"the...
Making connections: Bringing astrophysical processes down to Earth
New supercomputer simulations explore magnetic reconnection and make a surprising discovery.Credit: Jackson Matteucci and Will Fox Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Magnetic reconnection, a process in which magnetic...
Taking new angle to enable more efficient, compact fusion power plants
New microwave injection system at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility doubles current-drive efficiency and demonstrates for the first time efficient off-axis current drive in a...
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...
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...
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