A team of physicists from the University of Birmingham and the University of Bath has identified a method to visualize, over a millionth of a billionth of a second, the initial quantum behavior of electrons on a surface. The scanning tunneling microscope used to inject electrons into a silicon surface. …

A team of researchers at the University of Virginia has devised a new imaging approach that combines powerful aspects of both magnetic resonance imaging and gamma-ray imaging. Prof. Gordon Cates and Dr. Wilson Miller with the unique imaging apparatus the team built in their lab. Image credit: Dan Addison / …

An Iowa State University-led team of physicists has demonstrated the quasi-stable existence of a tetraneutron, a subatomic structure once thought unlikely to exist. Tetra-neutron system produced in double-charge exchange reaction 4He(8He,8Be). Image credit: Susumu Shimoura / University of Tokyo. On their own, neutrons are very unstable and will convert into …

An international team of physicists, led by Prof. Chris Greene from Purdue University and Prof. Herwig Ott from the University of Kaiserslautern, has observed a butterfly Rydberg molecule, a weak pairing of two highly excitable atoms. Their work was published in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Nature Communications …

There are two states of liquid water, says an international team of physicists led by Oxford University’s Dr. Laura Maestro. L.M. Maestro et al find that two states of liquid water play an important role in the thermal and optical properties of nanomedical systems; the team’s preliminary findings also suggest …

According to a team of researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India, pure bismuth — a semimetal with a rhombohedral structure — is superconducting at ultra-low temperatures. Artificially grown bismuth crystal illustrating the stairstep structure, with a 1 cm3 cube of bismuth metal. Image credit: …

A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has identified a region in the brain responsible for the ‘placebo effect’ in pain relief, when a fake treatment actually results in substantial reduction of pain. In the study, whole-brain degree count maps, collected before the start of treatment, were used to identify potential …

An international team of scientists from Japan, UK and the United States has been able to regenerate heart muscle by placing adult mice in a low-oxygen environment. Schematic of gradual induction of severe hypoxemia. Image credit: Yuji Nakada et al, doi: 10.1038/nature20173. The team, led by University of Texas Southwestern …

An international team of scientists from the United States and China has found a sensor for the reactive molecules linked to diabetic complications. The study, done in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, provides particular promise for those suffering from painful diabetes-related nerve damage. TRPA-1/TRPA1 activation via a-dicarbonyls (a-DCs) is relayed …

A research team led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientist Prof. James Crowe, Jr., has isolated a human monoclonal antibody that in a mouse model ‘markedly reduced’ infection by the Zika virus. Transmission electron micrograph of Zika virus. Virus particles are 40 nm in diameter, with an outer envelope, and …