Nucleus

Nuclear clocks could allow scientists to probe the fundamental forces of the universe in the future. LMU researchers have made a crucial advance in this area as part of an international collaboration. Atomic clocks measure time so precisely…

What does the inside of a carbon atom's nucleus look like? A new study by Forschungszentrum Jülich, Michigan State University (USA) and the University of Bonn provides the first comprehensive answer to this question. In the study, the…

Amid the ongoing funding crunch, Indian startups are cutting their spends on cloud storage and renegotiating contracts with service providers like Amazon’s AWS. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ Online…

October 2021. India was slowly emerging from a devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Bengaluru, Kiran Prasad was beaming. He was aggressively expanding his cloud-kitchen startup Hygiene BigBite and was just coming out of a…

A small nucleus in the brainstem called locus coeruleus (literally the "blue spot,") is the primary source of a major neuromodulator, norepinephrine (NE), an important mediator of the 'fight or flight' response in animals. However, very…

On a rainy Tuesday in San Francisco, Apple executives took the stage in a crowded auditorium to unveil the fifth-generation iPhone. The phone, which looked identical to the previous version, had a new feature that the audience was soon…

A new paper sheds light on the nature of atomic nuclei. Everything in the universe, from the largest galaxies down to individual atoms, is governed by four fundamental forces, which together describe how particles interact with each other…

First in line to receive data transmissions from the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions is using the unprecedentedly clear observations to reveal the secret inner…

Viruses are tiny packets of destruction and there are more of them than any other biological entity on the planet. Luckily, only a few hundred are known to make people sick, and figuring out what makes those viruses tick can help prevent…

Massive neutron stars colliding in space are thought to be able to create precious metals such as gold and platinum. The properties of these stars are still an enigma, but the answer may lie beneath the skin of one of the smallest building…