[ad_1] The HEART detector array, shown here in this rendering, consists of 19 copper-framed “towers” that each house a matrix of 52 cube-shaped crystals. (Credit: HEART Collaboration) Surrounded by lead and also shielded by nearly a mile of rock from the natural bombardment of particles on the Earth’s surface, the …
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[ad_1] The Borexino Experiment research team was able for the first time to detect neutrinos from the sun’s second fusion process, the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen cycle (CNO cycle). This means that now all theoretical predictions about how energy is generated inside the sun have also been experimentally verified. The findings …
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[ad_1] I. University chemistry professor Liviu Mirica and his colleagues found that diagnostic agents containing copper isotopes can detect amyloid deposits in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Researcher Hong-Jun Cho is the first author of the study. Photo courtesy of Hong-Jun Cho CHAMPAIGN, Ill. …
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[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 …
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