Search Results for 'Light'

Physicists extract light from seeming emptiness

Physicists in Sweden say they have managed to create light from vacuum, the closest thing to empty space known to exist. In findings published this week in the research jour [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

The Latest Biology Resources Highlighted at Life-Sciences ne...

The Science Website Life-Sciences net has been established to discover and share scholarly and popular content in the basic and applied life and earth sciences including agriculture, forestry, the environmental sciences, and the health sc [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Large Hadron Collider scientists think they may have disprov...

ASTONISHED scientists are in complete shock after they apparently blew apart one of the basic laws of physics. Researchers say they have recorded particles travelling faster than the speed of light – something that was understood to [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

FLCC biology research in national spotlight

The success Finger Lakes Community College has experienced bringing research into biology curriculum is now paying off big time. On Tuesday, the college announced receiving a $3.35 million National Science Foundation grant to roll out a n [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Blind Cave Fish May Shed Light on Human Body Clocks

Blind cave fish have spent millions of years in the dark underground with no concept of day and night, yet scientists have found that they still maintain a working biological clock. Researchers say that learning more about how these eyele [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

CELL BIOLOGY : Light-sheet microscopes reveal cells in actio...

Early in the 20th century, the University of Heidelberg established itself as a pioneering center for interdisciplinary studies. A century later, the medieval German town hosts a new center for cross-disciplinary research. The [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Solar predictions bring heat and light

And the story is here again, in the form of research unveiled this week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Solar Physics Division in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The solar science, described graphically in a Discover Ma [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Research sheds light on virus life cycle

A group of Canadian researchers have discovered a way to cheat death. Or at least a way a cunning and common virus manages to evade the Grim Reaper. The team, from the faculty of medicine and dentistry at the University of Alberta, in Ed [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Black holes take light for a spin

Given how weird black holes are, it’s only fitting that researchers have found a screwy way to detect the rotation of these gravitational monsters. Existing telescopes could be equipped with special detectors to record the twist im [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Light pollution screws up songbirds’ sex lives

Keeping the lights on when romance strikes is a definite mood-killer – when it comes to birds, says a new study. In today’s increasingly urbanized world, the lights in many places are always on, and that’s having a real [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

NASA Drops Ares I-Y Flight Test

NASA's Constellation Program has recommended dropping a planned follow-on to last week's successful Ares I-X flight-test because it doesn't have the funding necessary to get an upper stage engine ready in time. Instead, the Ares I-X engine [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

NASA - Booster rocket badly dented in test flight

According to a statement by the US space agency NASA, a deflated 150-foot parachute badly dented the first stage booster of the Wednesday-launched Ares I-X test rocket, before its dummy upper stage plunged into the Atlantic. The huge dent, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

New sensor sheds light on zinc biology

EU-funded researchers have developed a sensor that allows them to measure the concentration of zinc inside cells. The findings should lead to a greater understanding of diseases in which zinc has been implicated, such as diabetes and Alzhei [...]

Posted On : Sep, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Buzz Aldrin - the dark times that followed that historic fli...

A few minutes into our conversation, Buzz Aldrin makes it clear that we won't be spending much time reliving the day that began a new chapter in the history of the human race and made him one of the most famous people on – and off & [...]