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SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center
January 8, 2013 Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole ... > full story -
Counting the Twists in a Helical Light Beam: New Device Could Help Advance Future Optical Communications
January 8, 2013 At a time when communication networks are scrambling for ways to transmit more data over limited bandwidth, a type of twisted light wave is gaining new attention. Called an optical vortex or vortex ... > full story -
Romper Suit With Sensors May Protect Against Sudden Infant Death
January 7, 2013 Breathing sensors built into romper suits could help prevent sudden cot deaths in the future. The basis for this is a stretchable printed circuit board that fits to the contours of the body and can ... > full story -
New Phase in Reading Photons
January 6, 2013 A new photodetector can cleanly discriminate among four states, not just the standard two states of binary ... > full story -
Paired CT Scans Catch Chemo-Killing of Liver Tumors in Real Time
December 31, 2012 Using two successive pairs of specialized CT scans, a team of radiologists has produced real-time images of liver tumors dying from direct injection of anticancer drugs into the tumors and their ... > full story -
Measurements Hint Why the Universe Is Dominated by Matter, Not Anti-Matter
December 26, 2012 Physicists have made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, ... > full story -
Canadian Experiment to Track Space Radiation and Its Risks
December 20, 2012 Space can be a potentially hazardous environment to live and work in, especially when it comes to radiation. Originating from violent storms on the Sun and galactic cosmic rays produced in distant ... > full story -
Nanoscale Impulse Radar Measures Depth of Snow and Ice for Alpine Ski Slopes
December 17, 2012 Snow is the be-all and end-all for alpine ski resorts. Now a tiny sensor has been developed to determine how much cold gold there is on the slopes and how much more should be produced. The sensor is ... > full story -
New Tool to Enhance Tasks of Humanitarian Demining
December 10, 2012 Researchers have developed a training tool to improve the use of hand-held detectors in humanitarian demining and to increase user security. The proposed tool opens a wide range of possibilities, ... > full story -
Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored
December 6, 2012 Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest developments, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 ... > full story
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