Tag Archives: X-Rays

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 11, 2024

Volume 628 Issue 8007

Nature Magazine – April 11, 2024: The latest issue cover features the environmental challenges now facing insect populations, with climate change emerging as a key factor whose influence has potentially been underestimated

Green space near home has an antidepressant effect

People who had the most vegetation near their residences were the least likely to report depression and anxiety.

Advanced CRISPR system fixes a deadly mutation in cells

Applying a ‘base editor’ allows cells to crank out increased levels of a vital metabolic enzyme.

Baseball-sized hail in Spain began with a heatwave at sea

Climate change is partly to blame for a storm that pounded Girona province with record-breaking hailstones.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 4, 2024

Volume 628 Issue 8006

Nature Magazine – April 3, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Close Connections’ – Atlas reveals vast network of host-microbiome interactions…

A glowing glass transmits X-rays with ease

Copper-containing ‘nanoclusters’ form glasses with an orderly structure and unusual properties.

First pig kidney transplant in a person: what it means for the future

The operation’s early success has made researchers hopeful that clinical trials for xenotransplanted organs will start soon.

‘Best view ever’: observatory will map Big Bang’s afterglow in new detail

The Simons Observatory will search for signs of gravitational waves that originated from the Big Bang.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – June 1, 2023

Volume 618 Issue 7963

nature Magazine – June 1, 2023 issue:  X-rays are widely used to characterize materials, but samples still require a reasonably high number of atoms for success. In this week’s issue, Saw-Wai Hla and his colleagues report that they have used synchrotron X-rays to characterize the elemental and chemical state of an individual atom. The team was able to detect X-ray-excited currents generated from an iron and a terbium atom in molecular hosts.

How can mosquitoes find you? All you have to do is exhale

A person sits on a bed behind a mosquito net.

Free-flying mosquitoes gravitate toward pads that emit carbon dioxide, which is found in human breath.

Jupiter’s lightning has rhythm — just like Earth’s

Lightning on Jupiter, composite image.

Bolts begin as a series of short pulses both on Earth and on its much bigger, gassier neighbour in the Solar System.