Large Hadron Collider: Beams Colliding at Record Energies Mark Start of Research Program

Large Hadron Collider: Beams Colliding at Record Energies Mark Start of Research Program

  10:08:00 AM    Science Lover

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Beams collided at 7 trillion (1012) electron volts (or 7 tera electron volts -- TeV) in the Large Hadron Collider on March 30 at 13:06 Central European Summer Time (CEST) at CERN, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are...

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Moral Judgments Can Be Altered: Neuroscientists Influence People’s Moral Judgments by Disrupting Specific Brain Region

Moral Judgments Can Be Altered: Neuroscientists Influence People’s Moral Judgments by Disrupting Specific Brain Region

  9:13:00 PM    Science Lover

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MIT neuroscientists have shown they can influence people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region -- a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality. In a new study, researchers disrupted activity in the right temporo-parietal junction by...

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Contact Lenses Loaded With Vitamin E May Treat Glaucoma

Contact Lenses Loaded With Vitamin E May Treat Glaucoma

  1:30:00 AM    Science Lover

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The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye -- where it can treat that common disease -- almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial lenses, scientists report. Contact...

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Individual Light Atoms, Such as Carbon and Oxygen, Identified With New Microscope

Individual Light Atoms, Such as Carbon and Oxygen, Identified With New Microscope

  9:02:00 PM    Science Lover

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Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their colleagues have obtained the first images that distinguish individual light atoms such as boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. Individual...

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HTC EVO 4G: Better Than the Nexus One?

HTC EVO 4G: Better Than the Nexus One?

  1:14:00 AM    Science Lover

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Sprint's new HTC EVO 4G smartphone is being hailed as the new ruler of the Android empire. But has the crown really been passed? The HTC EVO 4G, unveiled at the CTIA Wireless exhibition this week, sure has a feature-list fit for a king. The phone boasts a 4.3-inch capacitive...

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Self-Healing Nuclear Reactors?

Self-Healing Nuclear Reactors?

  8:59:00 PM    Science Lover

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Self-repairing materials within nuclear reactors may one day become a reality as a result of research by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists. Diagram of mechanism. (Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) In a paper appearing March 26 in the...

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Harmful Intent: Emotions Key to Judging Others

Harmful Intent: Emotions Key to Judging Others

  12:50:00 AM    Science Lover

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A new study from MIT neuroscientists suggests that our ability to respond appropriately to intended harms -- that is, with outrage toward the perpetrator -- is seated in a brain region associated with regulating emotions. New research suggests that our ability to respond...

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Astronomers Confirm Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Astronomers Confirm Einstein's Theory of Relativity

  12:08:00 AM    Science Lover

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A group of astronomers [1], led by Tim Schrabback of the Leiden Observatory, conducted an intensive study of over 446 000 galaxies within the COSMOS field, the result of the largest survey ever conducted with Hubble. In making the COSMOS survey, Hubble photographed 575...

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TalkTalk - the Search Engine of the Future

TalkTalk - the Search Engine of the Future

  9:20:00 PM    Science Lover

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After a lot of hush-hush for several years the much longed for search engine TalkTalk was presented to the press this week. One day talking basically made me speechless; the future has never looked brighter in finding information. TalkTalk will open to the public next week...

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Men and Women Respond Differently to Stress

Men and Women Respond Differently to Stress

  10:50:00 AM    Science Lover

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Age and gender play a major role in how people respond to stress, according to a new study on 20-to-64-year-olds. Published in the journal Psychophysiology, the investigation was led by scientists from the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute in collaboration...

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High-Fructose Corn Syrup Prompts Considerably More Weight Gain, Researchers Find

High-Fructose Corn Syrup Prompts Considerably More Weight Gain, Researchers Find

  9:15:00 PM    Science Lover

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A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake...

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'Cold Fusion' Moves Closer to Mainstream Acceptance

'Cold Fusion' Moves Closer to Mainstream Acceptance

  11:36:00 PM    Science Lover

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A potential new energy source so controversial that people once regarded it as junk science is moving closer to acceptance by the mainstream scientific community. That's the conclusion of the organizer of one of the largest scientific sessions on the topic -- "cold fusion"...

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