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New Single Virus Detection Techniques for Faster Disease Diagnosis
May 30, 2013 Two independent teams have developed new optics-based methods for determining the exact viral load of a sample by counting individual virus particles. These new methods are faster and cheaper than ... > full story -
NASA’s HS3 Mission Aircraft to Double Team 2013 Hurricane Season
May 29, 2013 During this year's hurricane season NASA will "double-team" on research with two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft winging their way over storms that develop during the peak of the season. NASA's ... > full story -
Just How Secure Is Quantum Cryptography?
May 28, 2013 Unlike classical encryption, quantum communication systems are known to offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Now, new research on this topic is shaking up the long-held notion that ... > full story -
Men, Women Lie About Sex to Match Gender Expectations
May 28, 2013 People will lie about their sexual behavior to match cultural expectations about how men or women should act – even though they wouldn’t distort other gender-related behaviors, new ... > full story -
Hydrogen Atoms Under the Magnifying Glass: Nodal Structures of Electronic States of Hydrogen Atom Directly Observed
May 27, 2013 Researchers have succeeded in building a microscope that allows magnifying the wave function of excited electronic states of the hydrogen atom by a factor of more than 20,000, leading to a situation ... > full story -
Research Effort Deep Underground Could Sort out Cosmic-Scale Mysteries
May 24, 2013 Scientists have begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter ... > full story -
Coming Into Existence: Lab Sets a New Record for Creating Heralded Photons
May 20, 2013 A new experiment establishes a heralding efficiency that might allow loopholes to be eliminated in the validation of spooky action-at-a-distance in quantum ... > full story -
Nanoantennas Improve Infrared Sensing
May 20, 2013 Engineers have used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact ... > full story -
Team Wins Cubesat Berth to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements
May 16, 2013 A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which ... > full story -
New Method Proposed for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Ends of Universe
May 16, 2013 A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the ... > full story
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