”What we have created is a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before,’ said Professor Justin Wark of Oxford University’s Department of Physics, one of the authors of the paper. ‘Transparent aluminium is just the start. The physical properties of the matter…
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A cancer vaccine with a twist is making headway in clinical trials at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Rather than targeting a cancer-related virus–the way Gardasil targets human papillomavirus to prevent some cervical cancers–the new vaccine triggers the immune system to attack…
Read Full Article‘Repulsive’ Side To Light Force Could Control Nanodevices
A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a “repulsive” light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light rather than electricity. The attractive and repulsive light forces Tang’s team discovered are separate…
Read Full ArticleUQ researchers break the law – of physics – UQ News Online – The University of Queensland
Two UQ Science researchers have proved two famous physical laws that have been widely used for the past 25 years do not always work. Dr Tony Roberts and PhD student Christophe P. Haynes, from the School of Maths and Physics, showed the fractal-Einstein and…
Read Full ArticleHope for blindness cure with laser breakthrough | Science | The Observer
One of Britain’s leading eye experts has developed a technique to reverse the disabling effects of age-related macular degeneration AMD, which leaves many older people unable to read, drive or live independently, and eventually robs them of sight in one or both eyes. Professor…
Read Full ArticleBBC – Earth News – Ant mega-colony takes over world
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the…
Read Full ArticleAustralian scientists kill cancer cells with trojan horse | Global Industries | Health & Drugs | Reuters
Australian scientists have developed a “trojan horse” therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs. The “trojan horse” therapy has the potential to directly target cancer…
Read Full ArticleAustralian scientists may have worked out the mystery of teleportation | The Daily Telegraph
AUSTRALIAN scientists have developed a new method for transmitting data with light that may lead to super-fast quantum computers and teleportation technology. The research team from the Australian National University developed a new approach to generating quantum entanglement in beams of light using only…
Read Full Article‘Cloak of silence’ tech could hide submarines – Discovery.com- msnbc.com
A new invisibility cloak for sound could help doctors find tiny tumors or hide submarines from enemy sonar. “Our focus is not about dampening noise, but to guide sound waves around structures,” said Nicholas Fang, a professor a the University of Illinois at Urbana…
Read Full ArticleUniversity of Colorado team finds definitive evidence for ancient lake on Mars
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet. Estimated to be…
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