Towards greater MRI sensitivity by harnessing quantum hyperpolarization
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a technique which could increase the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for patient diagnosis.
The new...
Majorana trilogy completed
Since the breakthrough discovery of the Majorana particle in 2012 in Delft, the group of professor Leo Kouwenhoven at QuTech and Microsoft have collaborated...
Dark matter ‘missing’ in a galaxy far, far away
Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don't find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as...
Newly-discovered planet is hot, metallic and dense as Mercury
A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury—situated 340 light years away—has been detected and characterised by a global team of...
What the first American astronauts taught us about living in space
NASA's Project Mercury was the United States' first human-in-space program. Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one-person spaceflights that offered physicians...
Understanding the strange behavior of water
The properties of water have fascinated scientists for centuries, but yet its unique behaviour remains a mystery.
Published this week in the journal Proceedings of...
Prehistoric people resilient in the face of extreme climate events
Pioneering early people who lived at the end of the last ice age actually carried on with life as usual despite plummeting temperatures, a...
CERN experiment sees hints of a rare kaon decay
What if the odds of an event occurring were about one in ten billion? This is the case for the decay of a positively...
Scientists report first results from neutrino mountain experiment
This week, an international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, is reporting the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one...
Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million...
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new...
Biologists discover that female purple sea urchins prime their progeny to succeed in the...
This story begins in the kelp forest and ends with a very important climate change message: All is not lost—at least not for purple...