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Conventional wisdom has it that putting the words quantum gravity and experiment in the same sentence is like bringing matter into contact with antimatter. All you get is a big explosion; the two just don t go together. The distinctively quantum features of gravity only show up in extreme settings such as the belly of a black hole or the nascent universe, over distances too small and energies too large to reproduce in any laboratory.
Read More »Could Simple Experiments Reveal the Quantum Nature of Spacetime?
Conventional wisdom has it that putting the words quantum gravity and experiment in the same sentence is like bringing matter into contact with antimatter. All you get is a big explosion; the two just don t go together. The distinctively quantum features of gravity only show up in extreme settings such as the belly of a black hole or the nascent universe, over distances too small and energies too large to reproduce in any laboratory.
Read More »Too Bright for JWST: Some Exoplanets are Overwhelming
The planet Upsilon Andromedae b in close orbit to its parent star (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Understanding the structure, dynamics, and chemistry of planetary atmospheres is key to exoplanetary science. It’s sobering to realize that as of now it is still an enormous challenge to model even the atmospheres of planets in our own solar system
Read More »Ultrafast magnetic processes observed ‘live’ using X-ray laser
In first-of-their-kind experiments performed at the American X-ray laser LCLS, a collaboration led by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute has been able to precisely follow how the magnetic structure of a material changes.
Read More »Get back to fightin’ weight with Cage Fitness
Cage Fitness and other mixed martial arts-inspired workouts mimic the structure of a championship MMA bout -- minus the injury.
Read More »Polymer characterization ‘tweezers’ turn Nobel theory into benchtop tool
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new and highly efficient way to characterize the structure of polymers at the nanoscale effectively designing a routine analytical tool that could be used by industries that rely on polymer science to innovate new products, from drug delivery gels to renewable bio-materials.
Read More »A new technique for understanding quantum effects in water
It covers over two thirds of our planet, is essential for life on Earth and its chemical formula is one of the few most people can name, but we still have much to learn about the structure of H2O. Now, scientists working in Grenoble have developed a new technique using oxygen isotopes to study in detail the structure of disordered oxide materials such as water in biological processes or glasses in lasers and telecommunication devices
Read More »Online Gamers Help Solve Protein Structure
Scientists can now include online gaming in their problem-solving arsenal. Because game players seem to have provided an answer to a scientific question that’s vexed researchers for a decade.
Read More »Foldit Gamers Solve Science Riddles In Quest To Cure Disease
By tapping the collective power of human problem solving, this online gaming platform isn't just fun, it's making real steps in the fight against disease. The latest: An AIDS breakthrough.
Read More »Researchers make visible the structure of the smallest crystals
A radical new way of making structures visible at the nano level has been developed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany).
Read More »Ringing the hemoglobin bell
(PhysOrg.com) -- Knowing the structure of a molecule is an important part of understanding it, but quite often its even more important to know how the molecule moves -- more specifically, the vibrational dynamics that drive and control its interactions with other molecules in chemical reactions. Thats particularly true of proteins, the enormously complex molecular structures found at the heart of important life processes such as cell signaling, ion transport, and other functions. But most of the available techniques for studying the vibrational properties of a protein run into some vexing limitations, especially when probing the lower frequencies at which the proteins actually do their job.
Read More »Ignite Creativity & Innovation with the Technology of Gamestorming: Sunni Brown Interview
Sunni Brown , M.P.A., is owner of BrightSpot I.D., a company specializing in visual thinking to support problem-solving in business.
Read More »A Better Lithium Battery?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come one step closer to replacing the lithium-ion batteries that power phones, laptops and electric cars with a device that stores far more energy for the same weight. The device is known as a lithium-air or lithium-oxygen battery.
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–Ada Yonath: Climbing the Everest with polar bears
In her lecture today, Ada Yonath compared her scientific quest to determine the structure of the
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