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Scientists react as they stand in front of a screen at CERN

First atoms reported smashed in Large Hadron Collider (Update)

Physics / General Physics

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 5

Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced.


Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome

Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destination in biological cells. The studies used molecular ...


New hydrogen-storage method discovered

New hydrogen-storage method discovered

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (37) | comments 12

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach ...


Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute ...


UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published ...


Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.


A Tiny Cage of Gold Responds to Light, Opening to Empty Its Contents

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the ...


Hunting for Planets in the Dark

Hunting for Planets in the Dark

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5

A proposed space mission that aims to measure dark energy could also detect planets that current surveys are unable to find.


Scientists synthesize graphene-like material: Polymer with honeycomb structure

Scientists synthesize graphene-like material: Polymer with honeycomb structure

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Two-dimensional carbon layers, so-called graphenes, are regarded as a possible substitute for silicon in the semiconductor industry. The electronic properties of these layers can be varied by "building in" ...


Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of ...



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