News articles tagged with 'proton'
Bound neutrons pave way to free ones
— 8 Feb 2011 17:21 | PhysicsA study of bound protons and neutrons conducted at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has allowed scientists, for the first time, to extract information…
CERN observes melted nuclear matter for the first time
— 30 Nov 2010 21:44 | PhysicsThe experiments at CERN have entered a new phase and have obtained the first results. In the giant particle accelerator, LHC, collisions have until now been with protons. The new experiments…
Iowa State, Ames Lab chemists discover proton mechanism used by flu virus to infect cells
— 23 Oct 2010 17:15 | HealthThe flu virus uses a shuttle mechanism to relay protons through a channel in a process necessary for the virus to infect a host cell, according to a research project led by Mei Hong…
Cluster helps disentangle turbulence in the solar wind
— 5 Oct 2010 03:43 | AstronomyFrom Earth, the Sun looks like a calm, placid body that does little more than shine brightly while marching across the sky. Images from a bit closer, of course, show it's an unruly…
Quarks 'swing' to the tones of random numbers
— 28 Sep 2010 14:12 | PhysicsAt the Large Hadron Collider at CERN protons crash into each other at incredibly high energies in order to 'smash' the protons and to study the elementary particles of nature - including…
Watching electrons move in real time
— 22 Sep 2010 09:13 | PhysicsAt its most basic level, understanding chemistry means understanding what electrons are doing. Research published in The Journal of Chemical Physics not only maps the movement of electrons…
Mount Sinai researchers discover new mechanism behind cellular energy conversion
— 19 Aug 2010 08:58 | HealthResearchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have enhanced our understanding of the mechanism by which cells achieve energy conversion, the process in which food is converted into…
Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy
— 18 Aug 2010 09:03 | AstronomyPhysicists from UCLA and Japan have discovered evidence of 'natural nuclear accelerators' at work in our Milky Way galaxy, based on an analysis of data from the world's largest cosmic…
IBEX spacecraft finds discoveries close to home
— 17 Aug 2010 09:15 | AstronomyImagine floating 35,000 miles above the sunny side of Earth. Our home planet gleams below, a majestic whorl of colour and texture. All seems calm around you. With no satellites or space…
Rutgers nuclear physicists study 'magic' nature of tin
— 7 Aug 2010 09:01 | PhysicsThe metal tin lacks the value and prestige of gold, silver, and platinum - but to nuclear physicists, tin is magic…