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An intense electron beam that could be used in the X-ray lasers of the future has been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde. The beam was created by the plasma photocathode method, in which electrons were released from neutral atoms inside plasma. This has produced a potentially much brighter, plasma-based electron source which could … Read more
Dr Antony Dodd, Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences and senior author of the paper, said: “This proof of concept research suggests that, in future, we might be able to refine the use of some chemicals that are used in agriculture by taking advantage of the biological clock in plants. Approaches of this … Read more
Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production. They discovered that producing more of a protein that controls the rate in which electrons flow during photosynthesis, accelerates the whole process. “We tested the effect of increasing … Read more
Standard optical microscopes can image cells and bacteria but not their nanoscale features which are blurred by a physical effect called diffraction. Optical microscopes have evolved over the last two decades to overcome this diffraction limit; however, these so-called super-resolution techniques typically require expensive and elaborated instrumentation or imaging procedures. Now, Australian researchers from the … Read more
A new chip-based platform developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz integrates nanopores and optofluidic technology with a feedback-control circuit to enable an unprecedented level of control over individual molecules and particles on a chip for high-throughput analysis. In a paper published August 16 in Nature Communications, the researchers reported using the device to control the … Read more
New research published today in the journal Parasitology shows how the prehistoric inhabitants of a settlement in the freshwater marshes of eastern England were infected by intestinal worms caught from foraging for food in the lakes and waterways around their homes. The Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm, located near what is now the fenland city of … Read more
Scientists, mainly from Zhejiang University led by Professor Haohua Wang and Institute of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences led by Professors Heng Fan and Dongning Zheng, have successfully created Schrödinger cat states of up to 20 qubits with a superconducting quantum processor. In addition, they show that the generated 18-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state is … Read more
Scientists have long suspected that an area of the Earth’s mantle, somewhere between the crust and the core, contains a vast reservoir of rock, comparatively undisturbed since the planet’s formation. Until now, there has been no firm proof if or where it exists. Now an international group of scientists has measured helium isotopes contained in … Read more
A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose scientists have found a superconductor that could sidestep one of the primary obstacles standing in the way of effective quantum logic circuits. Newly discovered properties in the compound uranium ditelluride, or UTe2, show that … Read more
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a new sensory organ that is able to detect painful mechanical damage, such as pricks and impacts. The discovery is being published in the journal ‘Science‘. Pain causes suffering and results in substantial costs for society. Almost one person in every five experiences constant pain and there … Read more