Physics
Radioactive beams give a real-time view of cancer treatment in mice
This first successful treatment of tumors with radioactive ion beams could one day lead to treating human patients’ tumors with millimeter precision.
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This first successful treatment of tumors with radioactive ion beams could one day lead to treating human patients’ tumors with millimeter precision.
A thunderstorm seen in gamma-ray vision is a complex, frenetic lightshow when viewed from above the clouds.
The “golden channel” decay of subatomic particles called kaons could break or confirm the standard model of particle physics.
The X-ray pulses could deflect asteroids up to 4 kilometers wide, a new study suggests.
Theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer proposes new scenarios for dark matter and helped discover the Fermi bubbles.
Physicist and engineer Bhavin Shastri is working to create the first photonic computer modeled after the human brain.
Like a steampunk fantasy-world, which pairs high-tech with an old-timey setting, Nicole Yunger Halpern melds old and new science.
Lithium is an essential ingredient for batteries in electric vehicles but getting enough will become a problem.
The Stanford biophysicist thinks that understanding the mechanics of cell movement could allow scientists to manipulate immune cells.
Cosmological data suggest unexpected masses for neutrinos, including the possibility of zero or negative mass.
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