Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...iolet laser light late on Nov. 13. Within twodays, physicists had also induced the system to produce gamma rays by collidingthe laser beam with the same electron beam that feeds it. Duke's FEL Laboratory is funded by a U.S. Department of Defense programfor advancing laser technology in medicine. Free-electron...Electron Accelerator Provides Unique Proof Of Gene Repair Process In Living Cells
...n Science, Petrini enlisted the help of UW-Madison physicists and engineers who work at the university's Synchrotron Radiation Center, where high-speed propulsion of electrons produces X-rays of varying energy levels. Studies conducted there relating to X-ray lithography may someday result in a smaller, more po...DFG To Fund Six New Research Units
...Modellingcohesive friction materials engineers and physicists in Stuttgart now want to embark on ascientific inv...uctorsand superfluids experimental and theoretical physicists at Bayreuth University intend toinvestigate these effects, described as superconduction and superflu...First TableTop Source Of Concentrated X-Rays Built
...cilities for high-speed lasers. U-M engineers and physicists at CUOS areworking on some of the most advanced laser technologies available today,including femtosecond lasers, which generate the shortest, most intense burstsof energy yet produced....DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...s and control of ultrafast photo-inducedreactions" physicists and chemists of Berlin Free University intend to characterise nuclearmovements triggered by optical excitation. Experimental investigations combines withtheoretical simulations and computations are to help understand the molecular dynamics ofopticall...Birds Of A Feather: The Physics Of Flocks
...of how hundreds of birds can move as a singleunit, physicists have devised a detailed theory of the flocking pro...ffic flow. ---To explain the flocking process, the physicists make intriguing analogies tophysics phenomena such as the lining up of magnets, the flow of fluids, ...National Science Medalists Named
...e generations of materials scientists, solid-state physicists and mathematicians. (Media Contacts: Bill Noxon, NSF, and Emil Venere, NIST, 301-975-5745, venere@nist.gov) Cathleen Synge Morawetz , Professor Emerita, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, for pioneering advances in p...Flexible Membranes - Moving Through The Twilight Zone Between The Nano- And The Microworld
...azingarchitecture of the living cell. In addition, physicists and chemists have beenfascinated by the unusual properties of these structures which are veryanisotropic: They consist of bilayers of molecules and thus are very thin with athickness of only 4 - 5 nanometers; their lateral extension, however, is much...Physicists Find Simple Solution To Great-And-Small Mystery
...nthe May 13 issue of the journal Nature, a team of physicists will reveal ageneral theorem capable of explaining...sly pervasive throughout nature," Banavar says. As physicists accustomed to the quest for simple and elegant mathematicaltheorems, Banavar and his colleagues set ...Scientists identify molecular source of friction
...ume Amontons produced the classic laws offriction, physicists at The Johns Hopkins University have accounted for thenotable endurance of Amontons' equations by identifying the molecular origins ofstatic friction. It's that stuff in the middle. "Typically, when someone measures friction, what they will report is...CWRU physicists invent "supershielding" for MRI devices
...conveniences. Robert Brown and Shmaryu Shvartsman, physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Wester...e created an armor they call "supershielding." The physicists will report on their new invention in the article,"Supershielding: Confinement of Magnetic and Elect...Keck Foundation supports research at the edge
... of University of Chicago biologists, chemists and physicists withcommon interests, has received a $2-million tw... that theyrequire the collaboration of biologists, physicists and chemists to answer them," saidbiologist Lindquist. "It's at the boundaries of the sciences, the ...NRC discovery allows scientists to watch the ultrafast processes of the microworld
...osynthesis, was made by amultidisciplinary team of physicists and chemists at NRC?s Steacie Institute forMolecular Sciences (SIMS). Their work was reported in the September 2 issue ofNature. This SIMS group specializes in femtosecond laser technology, molecular dynamicsand intense field physics. A femtosecond...UB establishes institute for research on lasers, photonics and biophotonics
...tissue sites. At the same time, Prasad explained, physicists and engineers at the institute have been working on developing a newgeneration of just that type of laser. "So one part is photonics and the other part is lasers and when we combine them, the result is a far more advanced, farmore appealing technolo..."Remote control research" a first for the U of L and National Research Council
...-scale structure of the universe, condensed matter physicists use "spectroscopic" microscopes such as NMR spectroscopy to study the structure of matter on a molecular scale. Siminovitch, a biophysicist who uses NMR spectroscopy to study bio-molecular structure and dynamics, has a particular interest in the func...Laser light from Free-Electron Laser used for first time in human surgery
...ns. Among these pioneers were a group ofVanderbilt physicists and medical researchers. In 1986, they submitted a...ld perform surgery on human patients, however, the physicists had to improvethe reliability of the FEL beam. William Gabella, associate director of operations, le...'Obesity gene' causes cancer of fat tissue, Schepens scientists find
...g immunologists, molecular and cell biologists and physicists who investigate cures for blinding eye diseases and aids for victims of low vision. Many diagnostic techniques and devices, surgical methods and medications related to eye diseases were developed by Institute faculty....A new picture of the brain may reveal the key to Alzheimer's
Boston University physicists correlate disappearance of vertical structures with loss of brain function Vertical structures, called microcolumns, found in the cerebral cortex of normal brains, are disrupted in the brains of people affected by Alzheimer's disease, report Bost...Spring meeting press conferences
...Provide Energy for Auroras and Space Weather Space physicists have made the first direct observations of magnetic reconnection occurring naturally in the space around Earth. The finding helps settle a 50-year-old debate about how and where space weather and auroras originate. (Imagery will be available at the p......ansactions per hour and has revolutionised the way physicists communicate research findings by allowing them to distribute articles rapidly, efficiently and before they are printed by a commercial publisher. Open access publishing in biomedicine could also change the way science impacts on the general public w...