Accelerator sets world record
Fermilab's Main Injector accelerator, one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world, has just achieved a world record for high-energy beams for...
Probing the transforming world of neutrinos
The NOvA detector measures 50 feet by 50 feet by 200 feet, and the top surface of the detector as shown here is covered...
World’s smallest neutrino detector observes elusive interactions of particles
Researchers Bjorn Scholz (left) and Grayson Rich (right) with the world's smallest neutrino detector as it's being installed along 'neutrino alley' at the Spallation...
First observation of the hyperfine splitting in antihydrogen
Antimatter research laboratory.
Credit: Professor Niels Madsern
Swansea University scientists working at CERN have again made a landmark finding, taking them one step closer to answering...
Twilight observations reveal huge storm on Neptune
Images of Neptune taken during twilight observing revealed an extremely large bright storm system near Neptune's equator (labeled 'cloud complex' in the upper figure),...
Good cellular neighbors combat incipient cancers
Normal cells help corral tumors (left) and when removed lead to expansion of cancers.
Credit: Yale University
Scientists have spent decades studying the nature of tumor...
BPA can disrupt sexual function in turtles, could be a warning for environmental health
Scientists found that BPA can alter a turtle's reproductive system and disrupts sexual differentiation while it develops in the egg. Researchers are concerned findings...
Early gene-editing success holds promise for preventing inherited diseases
Newly fertilized eggs before gene editing (left) and embryos after gene editing and a few rounds of cell division (right).
Credit: OHSU/Mitalipov lab
Scientists have, for...
Exposure to BPA potentially induces permanent reprogramming of painted turtles’ brains
Painted turtle eggs were brought from a hatchery in Louisiana, candled to ensure embryo viability and then incubated at male-permissive temperatures in a bed...
Catalysts efficiently and rapidly remove BPA from water
BPA is found in water sources around the world.
Credit: © winston / Fotolia
Carnegie Mellon University chemist Terrence J. Collins has developed an approach that...
Caught in the act: Coral’s bleaching behavior
Heliofungia actiniformis uses pulsed inflation to try to survive coral bleaching.
Credit: Brett Lewis, QUT
Coral researchers have for the first time captured the specific behaviour...
