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Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3-D DNA Crystals

Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3-D DNA Crystals

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live. The work, reported in the latest issue of ...


Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...


Fire Meets Ice: Superhot And Supercold Remarkably Similar In The 'Fermion' World (w/ Video)

Fire Meets Ice: Superhot And Supercold Remarkably Similar In The 'Fermion' World (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 13

Trapping and cooling a microscopic clump of gas and then suddenly releasing it would normally result in the gas rapidly expanding outward in all directions, like a spherical bubble.


Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel

Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel

Chemistry / Polymers

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria play a role in myriad industrial processes from fermentation to cleaning up environmental pollution. But floating freely in solution, the microbial cells constantly multiply, generating ...


A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...


Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors

Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conquering one of the biggest challenges in the study of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have grown ...


Putting Plankton in Perspective, from Sea to Sky

Putting Plankton in Perspective, from Sea to Sky (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- From the time he was 21 and working toward his Ph.D., Mike Behrenfeld has been observing phytoplankton -- floating ocean plants that have a global impact. Observing these tiny plants under ...


CERN Grid Computing Center

Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest Computing Grid is Ready for LHC Restart

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider ...


How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed

How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New structures of a botulism toxin interacting with a mimic of the nerve-cell protein it destroys suggest new ways to block this often-fatal interaction. Indeed, the mimic molecules have such ...


Plant microbe shares features with drug-resistant pathogen

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospital patients. The findings ...


Scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create nonexpanding metals

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does not ...


X-Rays for Early Alzheimer's Disease Detection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new, highly detailed x-ray imaging technique that could be developed into a method for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s ...


Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare

Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1972, Apollo astronauts narrowly escaped a potential catastrophe. On August 2nd of that year, a large and angry sunspot appeared and began to erupt, over and over again for more than a ...


Brain-behavior disconnect in cocaine addiction

Brain-behavior disconnect in cocaine addiction

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Parts of the brain involved in monitoring behaviors and emotions show different levels of activity in cocaine users relative to non-drug users, even when both groups perform equally well on ...


CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech ...