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Physicists see through the opaque with 'T-rays'

Physics / General Physics

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

"T-rays" may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M physicist who is helping lay the theoretical groundwork to make the concept ...


Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...


New way to break some of the strongest chemical bonds

New way to break some of the strongest chemical bonds

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Cornell University in the U.S. have found a new way of breaking two of the strongest chemical bonds, at ambient temperature and pressure, and this breakthrough could lead to ...


Caltech scientists film photons with electrons

Caltech scientists film photons with electrons

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology -- which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale ...


Arctic ice

Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (30) | comments 19

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...


Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

When bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as ...


Closing in on dark matter?

Physicists detect two candidate dark matter interactions, but say the data are not conclusive

Physics / General Physics

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including ...



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