Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ways, too. A honeybee queen facing chronic exposure to pesticides will take up…
High-sensitivity atomic force microscopy opens up for photosensitive…
Researcher at Kanazawa University demonstrates atomic force microscopy imaging that gets around the challenges of exciting very small cantilevers at their high megahertz resonance frequencies. The approach accomadates wide frequency bandwiths, and is applicable for…
CERN announced first indications of a rare Higgs…
Geneva (CERN)-- At the 40th ICHEP conference, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons. The muon is a heavier copy of the electron, one of the…
“Junior republics,” a unique concept in the history…
Peter Dizikes, MIT News Photo: M. Scott Brauer CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- Around 1900, the famed Baedeker’s travel guide began listing a new tourist sight in Freeville, New York: the “George Junior Republic,” a miniature United States…
NIH Invests $250 M in COVID-19 Testing innovation
For Scale Up 'Manufacturing' purpose the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is committing nearly $250 million to seven companies with COVID-19 testing innovations that were selected through a “Shark Tank approach.” Quidel’s Sofia 2 point-of-care…