Mark Hoffman : Science World Report

Feb 13, 2013 03:46 PM EST

The Experiment That Uses Lasers to Play With Fat Antimatter

There is an antimatter experiment with huge and super-complex machines that is as exotic as it gets at CERN: it involves 'inflating' an atom with a laser, then slow it down, catch it or bend it around corners. This is going to happen in the AEGIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator, where Steph...

Feb 13, 2013 03:22 PM EST

Baby Black Hole of Milky Way May Created by Rare Explosion

A highly distorted supernova remnant shown in the image below may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The image combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and green, radio data from the NSF's Very Large Array in pink, and infrared data from Caltech's...

Feb 13, 2013 08:59 AM EST

Ozone Hole Retreat Shows Climate Science Triumph

Satellite data of the ozone sensor on Europe’s MetOp weather satellite, the hole over Antarctica in 2012 was the smallest in the last 10 years.

Feb 12, 2013 04:51 PM EST

Europe's ISS Columbus Laboratory: Five Years Science in Space

A variety of scientific results were achieved thanks to now 5 years of experiments aboard the European Columbus laboratory module attached to the International Space Station. By now, 110 ESA-led experiments involving some 500 scientists have been conducted since 2008, spanning fluid physics, materia...

Feb 12, 2013 03:41 PM EST

Nanoscribe Makes Fastest 3D Laser Lithography Printer for Nanostructures

The world’s fastest 3D printer of micro- and nanostructures has been developed by Nanoscribe GmbH, a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the German company announced at the Photonics West.

Feb 12, 2013 02:18 PM EST

Alarming Water Resource Loss in Middle-East Observed From Space

The alarming fact that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade is highlighted and measured precisely by a study based on data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites.

Feb 11, 2013 11:17 PM EST

Evolution of Spoken Language Decrypted and Reconstructed by Computer Algorithm

Archaeologists will gain a powerful new tool in their quest to recover ancestral, disappeared languages: Connecting machine learning algorithms with Big Data in this field proved successful and will automate a process that until now took decades. Spoken language changes continuously, and ancient lan...

Feb 11, 2013 05:16 PM EST

Holographic Nanoscale Microscopy Allows Watching Living Cells in 3D

Real time observation, of living cells, in 3D, and at the nanoscale - this are the incredible and groundbreaking features of a new holographic microscopy prototype developed by two young scientists at the Swiss Technology University EPFL.

Feb 11, 2013 03:59 PM EST

Launch of Landsat 8 Successful (Picture)

The Atlas-V rocket with the Landsat 8 spacecraft onboard is pictured as it launches on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The spacecraft separated from the rocket 79 minutes after launch and the first signal was received 3 minutes later at a ground station in Svalbard, Norway...

Feb 11, 2013 02:25 PM EST

Accelerated Broken Bone Healing With New Implant

Researchers made a degradable plastic implant that accelerates the healing of bones by guiding blood with the bodies stem cells to the broken places where they do their healing work. The honeycomb scaffold structure allows an optimal blood flow which enables the stem cells from the patient's bone ma...

Feb 11, 2013 11:36 AM EST

Light Activates Pain Nerve Cells With New Compound Tested by Scientists

Researchers searched for and found a compound that lets nerve cells, located anywhere on the body outside the eyes, react to light. Massachusetts General Hospital's David Kokel and colleagues identified the drug-like molecule named "optovin", which elicits movements in mice and fish when exposed to ...

Feb 09, 2013 09:52 PM EST

Robotic Refueling Project of NASA Conducted First Test at ISS (video)

The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) team of NASA announced a success of the January experiments aboard the ISS and released a video showcasing it and their project. A key achievement was their first-of-its-kind demonstration of robotic fluid transfer in space, an objective they hope will help the d...