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An international team that includes physicists at LMU has developed a new method with which to characterize the ultrafast oscillation of the electrical fields associated with light.

By fusing a cytokine to a blood protein, researchers have developed a new therapy to help treat multiple sclerosis.

Women, especially minority women, from states with more restrictive reproductive rights have a greater risk of delivering a low-weight baby and face more health disparities than women who reside in states with fewer rest...

Low-level exposure to lead during development does not lead to alcohol use disorder, but does alter the neural circuits in a way that if addiction occurs, it makes it harder to refrain from returning to addiction related...

A clusterization approach allows researchers to analyze dendritic spines in new ways.

A new computational model predicts how information deep inside the brain could flow from one network to another, and how neural network clusters can self optimize over time.

People with eating disorders are up to twelve times more likely to experience body dysmorphia than those without a history of eating disorders. 76% of those with eating disorders report suffering from body dysmorphia, a ...

Optical spectrometers are instruments with a wide variety of uses. By measuring the intensity of light across different wavelengths, they can be used to image tissues or measure the chemical composition of everything fro...

The hunger hormone ghrelin doesn't just influence where and when animals eat, it also appears to have an impact on memory. Disrupting signaling of ghrelin to the vagus nerve caused rats to forget they had just eaten, eve...

Measures to limit the spread of covid-19 have reduced infections by other respiratory viruses as well, but it could make next year's flu and cold season more severe

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Powerful picosecond generators are in demand in various fields of experimental electrophysics to produce ultrashort electron beams and X-ray pulses in vacuum diodes and to form runaway electron flows in gases.

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From microscopes to data transfer via optical fibers all the way to modern quantum technologies, light plays an important role in science and industry. Particularly methods for changing the color--and hence the frequency...

In the era of electric cars, machine learning and ultra-efficient vehicles for space travel, computers and hardware are operating faster and more efficiently. But this increase in power comes with a trade-off: They get s...

Join Sam as he gets reacquainted with the sun and explains how light can have a profound effect on our mental and physical health. The good news? A little daylight goes a long way.

A new facility that could pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources has turned on at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Operating as a DOE user fa...

If I had to place money on a neurotech that will win the Nobel Prize, it's optogenetics. The technology uses light of different frequencies to control the brain. It's a brilliant mind-meld of basic neurobiology and engin...

Rubin Observatory will bring new capabilities to the studies of dark matter and dark energy. In just a few years, scientists at Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will launch the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), u...

On September 22, 2020, NASA and the U. S. Space Command announced that they were tracking an unidentified piece of space debris that appeared to be hurtling toward the International Space Station (ISS). It was predicted ...

Wormholes are incredibly fascinating objects, but also completely hypothetical. We simply don't know if they can truly exist in our universe. But new theoretical insights are showing how we may be able to detect a wormho...

Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate magnets with laser light pulses shorter than a trillionth of a second.