Making the invisible visible: Space particles become observable through handheld invention

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.
University of Delaware

Making the invisible visible

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Creating psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocks

UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids—the building blocks of ...

'Memory manipulation is inevitable': How rewriting memory in the lab might one day heal humans

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

This Strange Addiction Fuels Murder and War—But You Can Train Your Brain to Fight It, Research Suggests

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...
The Scientist

If You Could Be a Lab Instrument, Which One Would You Be?

Researchers use laboratory tools every day to help them make groundbreaking discoveries. Read on to find out which ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The Army’s laser locust just shrank into a drone hunter on wheels

The U.S. Army’s latest laser weapon is no longer a bulky science project strapped to a shipping pallet. It has been squeezed ...

Optics research uses dim light to produce bright LEDs

Researchers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have developed a technique that substantially improves the ...

Team captures first-ever 'twitch' of the eye's night-vision cells as they detect light

For the first time, an international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has ...