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Closing the gap between fish and land animals
New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land.   view more (2008-06-26)

Researchers Produce Firsts with Bursts of Light
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have generated extremely short pulses of light that are the strongest of their type ever produced and could prove invaluable in probing the ultra-fast motion of atoms and electrons.   view more (2007-07-25)

Computing breakthrough could elevate security to unprecedented levels
By using pulses of light to dramatically accelerate quantum computers, University of Michigan researchers have made strides in technology that could foil national and personal security threats.   view more (2007-08-17)

Moderate Alcohol Consumption Could Reduce Risk Of Dementia (p 281)
A Dutch study in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggests that light-to-moderate alcohol consumption could reduce the risk of dementia among older people, regardless of the type of alcoholic drink consumed. Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption reduces the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.... view more (2002-01-23)

Reversing and accelerating the speed of light
Physicist Costas Soukoulis and his research group at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus are having the time of their lives making light travel backwards at negative speeds that appear faster than the speed of light.   view more (2006-07-24)

Does too much sun cause melanoma?
We are continuously bombarded with messages about the dangers of too much sun and the increased risk of melanoma (the less common and deadliest form of skin cancer), but are these dangers real, or is staying out of the sun causing us more harm than good?   view more (2008-07-23)

Polarization technique focuses limelight
An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Svetlana Berdyugina of ETH Zurich's Institute of Astronomy, has for the first time ever been able to detect and monitor the visible light that is scattered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.   view more (2007-12-27)

Evolutionary Biology Research on Plant Shows Significance of Maternal Effects
When habitat changes, animals migrate. But how do immobile organisms like plants cope when faced with alterations to their environment? This is an increasingly important question in light of new environmental conditions brought on by global climate change.   view more (2007-11-16)

Geophysical Research Letters Highlight for 1 October 2001
American Geophysical Union Geophysical Research Letters European Highlight of This Issue - 1 October 2001 ******************** Contents I. Highlight II. Authors and their institutions III. Notes, including ordering information for science writers ********** I. Highlight 7. New method investigates... view more (2001-09-21)

Light shines way to diagnosis - The Physics Congress 2003
A research team from the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde has developed an array of miniature ultra-bright light emitting diodes (LEDs), which they believe could form the basis of a biosensor detection system, allowing doctors to perform thousands of clinical tests all in one... view more (2003-03-17)

Upside-down underwater telescope to study visitors from space
Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds will soon be able to study some of the most elusive particles known to man, thanks to a giant telescope under the sea that looks down towards the centre of the Earth rather than up into the sky. Together with fellow scientists from across... view more (2003-03-17)

An aerial for light
Austrian physicists report unusual light-metal interaction A team under Professor Franz Aussenegg at the University of Graz in Austria is looking into unusual interactions between light and submicroscopic metal particles. The physicists' findings represent a major advance towards the development of... view more (2003-02-17)

Small study points to addictive effects of frequent tanning
Frequent users of tanning beds may be getting more out of the experience than darker skin, according to researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.   view more (2006-03-29)

SMART-1 search for lunar peaks of eternal light
ESA's SMART-1 mission to the Moon has been monitoring the illumination of lunar poles since the beginning of 2005, about two months before arriving at its final science orbit. Ever since, the AMIE on-board camera has been taking images which are even able to show polar areas in low illumination... view more (2005-04-15)

Touching outlawed by hands-free monitor - Photon02
A Loughborough University research team, led by Professor Peter Smith and Vincent Crabtree, has developed a way of monitoring the blood flowing in human body tissue without actually touching the skin. This hands-free technique could one day be used to assess patients during surgery and monitor the... view more (2002-08-30)

New fabrication technique yields nanoscale UV LEDs
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires.   view more (2007-05-29)

Argonne scientists develop way to predict properties of light nuclei
Scientists have spent 70 years trying to predict the properties of nuclei, but have had to settle for approximate models because computational techniques were not equal to the task.   view more (2008-05-22)

Paint-on laser could rescue computer chip industry
Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a laser that could help save the $200-billion dollar computer chip industry from a looming crisis dubbed the "interconnect bottleneck."   view more (2006-04-18)

Scientists at the University of the Basque Country succeed in cooling solid material with laser
A team of researchers at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have experimentally demonstrated something that other scientists have been trying to achieve for decades: the cooling of erbium-doped materials with laser light.   view more (2006-07-27)

Lasers, Tomatoes and Blood
The monitoring of blood flow in the skin is an important diagnostic tool in many areas of medicine. These include the diagnosis of diabetes and of various dermatological conditions, the assessment of burn and other wound damage, and the response of the vascular system to smoking and other drugs.   view more (1998-09-01)

Terahertz imaging may reduce breast cancer surgeries
A promising new technique to ensure complete tumor removal at breast cancer excision is introduced in the May issue of Radiology.   view more (2006-04-26)

Astronomers search for orphan stars using newly upgraded telescope
Using new charge coupled device (CCD) instrumentation, Case Western Reserve University astronomers can now view the night sky wider and deeper than before.   view more (2008-05-20)

Tiny computers go where no computer has gone before
A major breakthrough in the use of molecules as information processors is to be announced at this year's BA Festival of Science in Dublin.   view more (2005-09-08)

Student scientists create living bacterial photographs
Using Petri dishes full of genetically engineered E. coli instead of photo paper, students at The University of Texas at Austin and UCSF successfully created the first-ever bacterial photographs.   view more (2005-11-28)

Study shows vitamin C is essential for plant growth
Scientists from the University of Exeter and Shimane University in Japan have proved for the first time that vitamin C is essential for plant growth. This discovery could have implications for agriculture and for the production of vitamin C dietary supplements.   view more (2007-09-24)
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