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Feb 13, 2013 03:46 PM EST

The Experiment That Uses Lasers to Play With Fat Antimatter

There is an antimatter experiment with huge and super-complex machines that is as exotic as it gets at CERN: it involves 'inflating' an atom with a laser, then slow it down, catch it or bend it around corners. This is going to happen in the AEGIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator, where Steph...

Feb 12, 2013 11:33 PM EST

NASA: Asteroid Won’t Hit Earth; Russians Were Wrong

Russians have got that one completely wrong. According to NASA, we can all, it seems, let out a collective sight of relieve.

Feb 11, 2013 12:08 AM EST

Long-Duration Solar Storm Shoots Particles at Earth

In the early hours of Saturday (Feb. 9), the sun shot out a long-duration solar flare aimed at Earth, triggering a coronal mass ejection (CME), scientists at NASA confirmed.

atom’s quantum information written to photon

Feb 07, 2013 05:05 PM EST

New Quantum Computer Interface Transfers Qubits From Atom to Photon

Progress towards creating the "quantum internet" and generally quantum computing was made by University of Innsbruck researchers managing to create an interface that enables a direct transfer of the quantum information stored in an atom onto a particle of light for the first time.

Nature: Microscope Looks into Cells of Living Fish

Feb 07, 2013 03:38 PM EST

Picosound Ultrasonics Able to Probe Cells Non-invasively

Scientists from the University of Bordeaux in France used high-frequency sound waves to test the stiffness and viscosity of the nuclei of individual and living human cells. The approach could prove to be helpful in answering questions such as how cells adhere to medical implants and why healthy cell...

Feb 06, 2013 08:22 AM EST

Official Data from Daredevil Felix Baumgartner's Spectacular Freefall Released (Video)

Daredevil Felix Baumgartner reached speeds in freefall that were far faster than previously calculated, according to Red Bull Stratos mission scientists.

Feb 05, 2013 04:09 AM EST

Modern Humans and Neanderthals Never Co-Existed: Study

The latest findings cast doubts on the previously held theory that lasted for 20 years stating modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed and had supposedly interbred.

Feb 04, 2013 08:44 PM EST

LHC to Increase Power Fivefold by 2020 With New Superconducting Technology

The largest scientific instrument ever built, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be upgraded to become five times more powerful until 2020. Major advancements in the required cutting-edge superconducting technology, in particular for the new high-field magnets and the high-power links, made in 20...

Feb 04, 2013 03:17 AM EST

Is it King Richard III? DNA Tests to Reveal the Mystery Monday

The skeleton of an adult male excavated last September by a team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester is thought to belong to England's lost King Richard who ruled the country from 1483-1485.

Feb 02, 2013 06:38 PM EST

Nanoscale 3D Spintronic Memory Chip Created for First Time

Scientists constructed an experimental version of a new kind of nanoscale 3D microchip that allows to store data in many layers upwards and without transistors, both a radically new way of building memory chips. On top of that, the Cambridge scientists used a spintronic (spin transport electronic) c...

Feb 01, 2013 05:39 PM EST

Exotic Particle Science at CERN: Antimatter and Positronium in AEGIS Experiment

One of the several experiments at CERN is AEGIS, which aims to make the first direct measurement of Earth's gravitational effect on antimatter. To do this, the scientists need to first generate a beam of antihydrogen atoms with the right properties, which involves the Antiproton Decelerator to achie...

iron-based catalyst for producing hydrogen

Feb 01, 2013 12:03 PM EST

Copying Bacteria Magic Could Yield Cheap Hydrogen Catalyst

To drive down the cost of making hydrogen, and make it a competitive fuel, researchers are trying to find catalysts that are cheap and enduring enough for the job. Princeton chemistry professor Annabella Selloni and her team take inspiration from bacteria that make hydrogen fro...