science
En route to the optical nuclear clock
The nucleus of thorium-229 possesses a property that is unique among all known nuclides: It should be possible to excite it with ultraviolet light....
Scalable manufacturing process spools out strips of graphene for use in...
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene.
The team's results are the first demonstration of an industrial,...
Dinosaurs ended — and originated — with a bang!
It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang -- wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth 66 million...
Nuclear techniques unlock the structure of a rare type of superconducting...
Nuclear techniques have played an important role in determining the crystal structure of a rare type of intermetallic alloy that exhibits superconductivity.
The research, which...
Studying oxygen, scientists discover clues to recovery from mass extinction
About 252 million years ago, more than 90 percent of all animal life on Earth went extinct. This event, called the "Permian-Triassic mass extinction,"...
Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea
We know more about the surface of the moon that we do about the bottom of the ocean. The sea floor is an alien...
Researchers create new Bose-Einstein condensate
Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, have created a Bose-Einstein condensate of light coupled with metal electrons, so-called surface plasmon polaritons. Nearly 100 years ago,...
Study: Diamond from the sky may have come from ‘lost planet’
Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth about a decade ago provide compelling evidence of a lost planet that once roamed our solar...
Strong carbon fiber artificial muscles can lift 12,600 times their own...
The pull-up, an exercise dreaded by most, answers a basic question: are your muscles strong enough to lift your own body weight?
Some Illinois researchers...
The current ability to test theories of gravity with black hole...
Astrophysicists at Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, and Nijmegen, collaborating in the project BlackHoleCam, answer this question by computing...
Warming climate could speed forest regrowth in eastern U.S.
Climate change could speed the natural regrowth of forests on undeveloped or abandoned land in the eastern U.S., according to a new study.
If left...
