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New understanding of chronic pain suggests new target for drug development

Millions of people worldwide suffer from a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which is triggered by nerve damage. Precisely how this pain persists has been a mystery, and current treatments are largely ineffective. ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plasmoids and sheaths mean success or failure for solar eruptions

Our Sun experiences regular eruptions of material into space, but solar physicists still have difficulty in explaining why these dramatic events take place. Now a group of scientists from the University of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers discover way to create true-color 3-D holograms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Satoshi Kawata, Miyu Ozaki and their team of photonics physicists at Osaka University in Japan, have figured out a way to capture the original colors of an object in a still 3-D hologram by ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Study describes a tabletop source of bright, coherent X-rays

Producing tightly focused beams of high energy X-rays, to examine everything from molecular structures to the integrity of aircraft wings, could become simpler and cheaper according to new research.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How do free electrons originate?

Scientists at Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching and Greifswald and Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany, have discovered a new way in which high-energy radiation in water can release slow electrons. ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source

Fusion is best known for powering the sun and stars. But researchers have long been studying ways to transform that power source into future "green" energy that can be used on Earth. A team of researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 9

New plasma transistor could create sharper displays

(PhysOrg.com) -- By integrating a solid-state electron emitter and a microcavity plasma device, researchers at the University of Illinois have created a plasma transistor that could be used to make lighter, ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

A supercharged metal-ion generator: Higher-quality coatings through 'runaway' self-sputtering

In the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions - atoms with a positive charge - to knock the metal atoms off a target. Scientists at the U.S. Department ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor

Since their development in the 1940s, transistors have been at the heart of computers and other modern electronic devices. Transistors - whose job is to start, stop, or amplify electric current - come in all ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (85) | comments 8 feature

Scientists report first findings on key astrophysics problem

In a paper published recently in the journal Nature Physics, an international team of space scientists led by researchers from the University of New Hampshire present findings on the first experimental evidence that points ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 28, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (42) | comments 9


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