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Rice lab mimics Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids inside a single atom
Rice University physicists have built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom. In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, Rice’s team and collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Vienna University of Technology showed they could make an electron orbit the atomic nucleus in the same way […]
Next-Generation Space Flight
January 24, 2012
The Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), or Orion, being assembled and tested at Lockheed Martin’s Vertical Testing Facility in Colorado. Drawing from more than 50 years of spaceflight research and development, Orion is designed to meet the evolving needs of our nation’s space program for decades to come. As the flagship of our nation’s next-generation space […]
Babies are born with ‘intuitive physics’ knowledge, researcher says
January 24, 2012
While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of “intuitive physics.” “In the MU Developmental Cognition Lab, we study infant knowledge of the world by measuring a child’s gaze when presented with […]
Non-destructive imaging of an individual protein
January 24, 2012
Jean-Nicolas Longchamp, Tatiana Laytychevskaia, Conrad Escher, Hans-Werner Fink The mode of action of proteins is to a large extent given by their ability to adopt different conformations. Τhis is why imaging single biomolecules at atomic resolution is one of the ultimate goals of biophysics and structural biology. The existing protein database has emerged from X-ray […]
January 24, 2012
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