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Neural code breakers: what language do neurons use to communicate?
Neuroscientists and physicists are trying to determine how neurons encode and transmit the language of the nervous system. They hope to discover...
Science News, 06/22/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
Schrodinger's cat: two atoms in one? - quantum mechanics experiment - Brief Article
Underlying the peculiar world of quantum mechanics is the notion that, under certain circumstances, matter can exist in more than one state or...
Science News, 05/25/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
Fit for a king: computer scanners capture the body's subtle shapes
Researchers are seeking applications for a new scanning technology that generates a three dimensional image of a person's body. The military uses...
Science News, 05/18/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
Early life: in the soup or on the rocks? - origin of life; research on prebiotic molecules that dried after being splashed on rocks - Brief Article
In most scenarios of the origin of life, precursors of biological molecules formed in a rich brew of amino acids. Then, on the beaches of primitive...
Science News, 05/04/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
Holograms serve as guiding light for atoms - using holograms to etch patterns on surfaces
Physicist Jun-ichi Fujita and his colleagues have made significant progress toward the development of atomic beam lithography with the discovery of...
Science News, 04/27/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
Bite-sized vacuum tubes - electrodes encased in diamonds offer advantages over solid-state transistors - Materials Science - Brief Article
Paying homage to the early days of broadcasting, when oak-paneled radios blared out swing tunes, physicists Griff L. Bilbro and Christopher W....
Science News, 04/20/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
Sound signals surf on waves of light - voice transmitted with integrated circuit that combines semiconductor logic and optical data transfer - Materials Science - Brief Article
As a means of carrying signals from one place to another, nothing beats light. As a means of carrying signals from one place to another, nothing...
Science News, 04/20/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
The lightest metal in the universe; scientists make a fleeting metal from hydrogen - hydrogen converted to metal - Cover Story
Physicists Samuel T. Weir, Arthur C. Mitchell and their colleagues converted hydrogen into metal by blasting it with a metal piston traveling at...
Science News, 04/20/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
Kinky business: watching atoms wiggle - forbidden reflection electron microscopy developed to observe bending in soft materials - Brief Article
What's more annoying than a bump in a rug? Step on it, and it shifts beneath your feet but doesn't flatten out. What's more annoying than a bump in...
Science News, 04/13/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication -
New molecules harness the energy of light - new molecules use light to produce work
Chemist Karen J. Brewer and her colleagues have made an inorganic light-harvesting molecule, which they call a supramolecular trimetallic complex....
Science News, 04/06/96 by Richard Lipkin · More from publication
