New Depiction of Light Aids Telecommunications

New Depiction of Light Aids Telecommunications

  9:29:00 PM    Science Lover

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Physicists with the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at The City College of New York have presented a new way to map spiraling light that could help harness untapped data channels in optical fibers. Increased bandwidth would ease the burden on fiber-optic...

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How Many Species On Earth? About 8.7 Million, New Estimate Says

How Many Species On Earth? About 8.7 Million, New Estimate Says

  2:25:00 AM    Science Lover

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Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million). Distribution of species by kingdom. (Credit: CoML) That is a new, estimated total number of species on Earth -- the most precise calculation ever offered -- with 6.5 million species found on land...

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World-Record Pulsed Magnetic Field Achieved; Lab Moves Closer to 100-Tesla Mark

World-Record Pulsed Magnetic Field Achieved; Lab Moves Closer to 100-Tesla Mark

  10:14:00 AM    Science Lover

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Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field produced by a nondestructive magnet. Yates Coulter, left, and Mike Gordon of Los Alamos...

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Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

  10:26:00 AM    Science Lover

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Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superconducting shapes using an X-ray beam. This ability to create and control...

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Biologists Discovery May Force Revision of Biology Textbooks: Novel Chromatin Particle Halfway Between DNA and a Nucleosome

Biologists Discovery May Force Revision of Biology Textbooks: Novel Chromatin Particle Halfway Between DNA and a Nucleosome

  10:16:00 AM    Science Lover

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Basic biology textbooks may need a bit of revising now that biologists at UC San Diego have discovered a never-before-noticed component of our basic genetic material. Biologists have discovered a novel chromatin  particle halfway between DNA and a nucleosome.  While...

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Holograms Reveal Brain's Inner Workings: Microscopy Technique Used to Observe Activity of Neurons Like Never Before

Holograms Reveal Brain's Inner Workings: Microscopy Technique Used to Observe Activity of Neurons Like Never Before

  9:36:00 AM    Science Lover

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Like far away galaxies, powerful tools are required to bring the minute inner workings of neurons into focus. Borrowing a technique from materials science, a team of neurobiologists, psychiatrists, and advanced imaging specialists from Switzerland's EPLF and CHUV report...

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Speaking and Understanding Speech Share the Same Parts of the Brain

Speaking and Understanding Speech Share the Same Parts of the Brain

  9:13:00 AM    Science Lover

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The brain has two big tasks related to speech: making it and understanding it. Psychologists and others who study the brain have debated whether these are really two separate tasks or whether they both use the same regions of the brain. Now, a new study, published in the...

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Seeing eye to eye is key to copying, say scientists

Seeing eye to eye is key to copying, say scientists

  10:21:00 AM    Science Lover

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Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but how do our brains decide when and who we should copy? Researchers from The University of Nottingham have found that the key may lie in an unspoken invitation communicated through eye contact. In a study published this...

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Scientists Have New Help Finding Their Way Around Brain's Nooks and Crannies

Scientists Have New Help Finding Their Way Around Brain's Nooks and Crannies

  12:53:00 AM    Science Lover

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Like explorers mapping a new planet, scientists probing the brain need every type of landmark they can get. Each mountain, river or forest helps scientists find their way through the intricacies of the human brain. Scientists have found a way to use MRI scanning data  to...

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Searching for Spin Liquids: Much-Sought Exotic Quantum State of Matter Can Exist

Searching for Spin Liquids: Much-Sought Exotic Quantum State of Matter Can Exist

  12:33:00 AM    Science Lover

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The world economy is becoming ever more reliant on high tech electronics such as computers featuring fingernail-sized microprocessors crammed with billions of transistors. For progress to continue, for Moore's Law -- according to which the number of computer components...

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Supergene is key to copycat butterflies

Supergene is key to copycat butterflies

  6:14:00 PM    Science Lover

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Since Charles Darwin, biologists have pondered the mystery of "mimicry butterflies", which survive by copying the wing patterns of other butterflies that taste horrible to their predators, birds. This undated handout photo released by the CNRS shows butterflies, Melinaea...

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Inexpensive catalyst that makes hydrogen gas 10 times faster than natural enzyme

Inexpensive catalyst that makes hydrogen gas 10 times faster than natural enzyme

  10:14:00 AM    Science Lover

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Looking to nature for their muse, researchers have used a common protein to guide the design of a material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas. The synthetic material works 10 times faster than the original protein found in water-dwelling microbes, the researchers...

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Engineers Reverse E. Coli Metabolism for Quick Production of Fuels, Chemicals

Engineers Reverse E. Coli Metabolism for Quick Production of Fuels, Chemicals

  10:54:00 PM    Science Lover

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In a biotechnological tour de force, Rice University engineering researchers this week unveiled a new method for rapidly converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes. In a paper published online in Nature, Rice's team described how it reversed one...

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