science
New simulations could help in hunt for massive mergers of neutron...
This image, from a computerized simulation, shows the formation of an inner disk of matter and a wide, hot disk of matter 5.5 milliseconds...
Synthetic biology yields new approach to gene therapy
Dr. Leonidas Bleris (left), assistant professor of bioengineering at UT Dallas, and Richard Taplin Moore MS’11 helped create a new delivery system that may...
Gene therapy via skin could treat many diseases, even obesity
When normal and gene-altered mice ate the high-fat diet -- along with varying levels of doxycycline to induce GLP1 release -- mice expressing GLP1...
New evidence for how green tea, apples could protect health
The Institute of Food Research has published a new study that adds more to the growing body of evidence that certain compounds found naturally...
Natural compound coupled with specific gut microbes may prevent severe flu
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a particular gut microbe can prevent severe flu infections in mice,...
Ghost particles: New limits on extremely rare decay
The results of tests conducted by UConn chemists show that nicotine electronic cigarettes are equivalent, if not slightly worse, than unfiltered (nf) tobacco cigarettes...
New results from T2K conclusively show muon neutrinos transform to electron...
Super Kamiokande is the worldʼs largest underground neutrino detector, and is located 1000 metres underground in Kamioka Mine, Hida, Gifu Precture, Japan. It is...
The short-baseline detectives and the mysterious case of the sterile neutrino
The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program will use three detectors: SBND, MicroBooNE (shown here) and ICARUS.
Credit: Reidar Hahn
In 1995, physicists working on the Liquid Scintillator...
Hide and seek: Sterile neutrinos remain elusive
Antineutrino detectors in Daya Bay Hall #3. The detectors rest in a pool being filled with ultrapure water.
Credit: University of California - Lawrence Berkeley...
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...
