VTT to study one of world’s oldest beers

Åland interested in reproduction

10-Feb-2011 - In the summer of 2010 in the Åland archipelago, divers retrieved well-preserved bottles of champagne and five bottles of beer from the wreck of a ship that likely sank during the first half of 1800s. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland will determine what kind of a recipe was used in the ...

Extreme x-ray pulses create unique image of intact virus

07-Feb-2011 - They are entirely too small to be seen even with the most powerful microscope. But now an international research team has managed to capture an image of an intact virus and a membrane structure from a photosynthetic bacterium with the aid of extremely intensive and ultra-short x-ray pulses from ...

Neutrino detector starts measurement

New facility in France to measure fundamental properties of neutrinos

31-Jan-2011 - The Double Chooz collaboration recently completed its neutrino detector which will see anti-neutrinos coming from the Chooz nuclear power plant in the French Ardennes. The experiment is now ready to start collecting data in order to measure fundamental neutrino properties with important ...

Physicists take new look at the atom

28-Jan-2011 - Measuring the attractive forces between atoms and surfaces with unprecedented precision, University of Arizona physicists have produced data that could refine our understanding of the structure of atoms and improve nanotechnology. The discovery has been published in the journal Physical Review ...

Shining new light on air pollutants using entangled porous frameworks

28-Jan-2011 - Certain types of pollution monitoring may soon become considerably easier. A group of researchers centered at Kyoto University has shown in a recent Nature Communications paper that a newly-formulated entangled framework of porous crystals (porous coordination polymers, or PCPs) can not only ...

The Nervous System as a Three-Dimensional Map

Freiburg Research Team Creates First Complete Map of Special Connections of Nerve Cells in Zebrafish

28-Jan-2011 - It would be hard to understand how a city is organized without knowledge of the course of all of its streets. Scientists confront the same problem when trying to understand the functioning of the brain. In the case of vertebrates, we only have fragmentary knowledge of which nerve cells send ...

New wave: JILA develops efficient source of terahertz radiation

25-Jan-2011 - JILA researchers have developed a laser-based source of terahertz radiation that is unusually efficient and less prone to damage than similar systems. The technology might be useful in applications such as detecting trace gases or imaging weapons in security screening. JILA is a joint ...

LGC Genomics and Bioplant R& D sequence the transcriptome of Jatropha curcas

25-Jan-2011 - LGC Genomics, the genomics division of LGC, announced that it has completed the sequencing of the whole transcriptome of the different developmental stages of Jatropha curcas seeds on behalf of the Austrian Bioplant R&D, Vienna and the PBU, Department of Biotechnology, VIBT-BOKU, Vienna.LGC ...

NIST puts a new twist on the electron beam

24-Jan-2011 - Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, at tiny levels of detail. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Hotspots tamed by BEAST

Secrets of mysterious metal hotspots uncovered by new single molecule imaging technique

21-Jan-2011 - The secrets behind the mysterious nano-sized electromagnetic "hotspots" that appear on metal surfaces under a light are finally being revealed with the help of a BEAST. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a ...