Tag Archives: Discovery

[ad_1] Pharmacy professor Tim Bugni led a UW-Madison effort to identify new antimicrobials from poorly studied ecosystems. School of Pharmacy Combing the ocean for antimicrobials, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a new antifungal compound that effectively targets multi-drug-resistant strains of deadly fungi without toxic side effects in …

[ad_1] Image of the Blue Ring Nebula, composed of expanding (blue) hydrogen gas expanding from a central star, which is the remnant core of a stellar fusion. Shockwave filaments from the fusion event are displayed in red. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / NASA / JPL-Caltech / M. Seibert (Carnegie Institution …

[ad_1] For over a decade, the phenomenon known as fast radio bursts has excited and bewildered astronomers. These extraordinarily bright but extremely short bursts of radio waves – lasting a few milliseconds – reach Earth from galaxies billions of light years away. In April 2020, one of the explosions was …

[ad_1] Chalmers University of Technology Studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion observed in April 2020, a team of scientists led by Chalmers used four European radio telescopes to confirm that astronomy’s most exciting puzzle is about to be solved. Fast radio bursts, the unpredictable millisecond radio signals seen …

[ad_1] A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr Alexey Berdyugin at the University of Manchester has discovered and characterized a new family of quasiparticles called “Brown-Zak fermions” in graphene-based super lattices. The team achieved this breakthrough by aligning the atomic lattice of a graphene layer with …

[ad_1] Credit:N. Hanacek / NIST JILA researchers used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continuous improvements in watches have value beyond timekeeping. Older atomic clocks operating at microwave frequencies have already searched for dark matter, but this is the first …

[ad_1] Long ago and throughout the universe, a huge explosion of gamma rays released more energy in half a second than the sun will produce during its 10 billion years of life. After examining the incredibly bright burst with optical, X-ray, near-infrared and radio wavelengths, an astrophysics team led by …

[ad_1] by Sarah Ben Bouzid | November 11, 2020 A new study from the American Heart Association estimates that people who regularly consume chili are likely to live longer and have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease or cancer. According to reports, eating spicy foods could therefore help increase …

[ad_1] Atomic force microscope. The copper probe can manipulate matter on an atomic scale. © 2020 Shiotari et al. Nanographene is a material that is expected to radically improve solar cells, fuel cells, LEDs, and more. Typically the synthesis of this material has been imprecise and difficult to control. For …

[ad_1] A two-million-year-old skull of a distant broad-toothed human cousin has been unearthed in an archaeological dig led by Australia deep into a South African cave system. Key points: Paranthropus robustus walked the Earth around the same time as Homo erectus The fossil discovery provides the first high-resolution evidence for …