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Specialised MRI Scans Show Earliest Signs of Damage to the Heart

Researchers have shown that people with high blood pressure develop changes in their hearts even before symptoms appear.

19 Oct 2015

Cassini Spacecraft Returns Amazing Views of Enceladus Moon’s Northern Extremes

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun returning its best-ever views of the northern extremes of Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus. The spacecraft obtained the images during its Oct. 14 flyby, passing 1,142 miles (1,839 kilometers) above the moon's surface. Mission controllers say the spacecraft will continue transmitting images and other data from the encounter for the next several days.

19 Oct 2015

New Horizons Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera Reveals Wide Range of Colors Across Pluto's Surface

University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015 issue of the journal Science.

16 Oct 2015

Hyperspectral Camera ‘Sees’ Underneath Surfaces Using Visible and Invisible Near-Infrared Light

Peering into a grocery store bin, it's hard to tell if a peach or tomato or avocado is starting to go bad underneath its skin.

16 Oct 2015

COMPASS Method Combining Advanced Molecular Spectroscopy Points Directly to Protein's Structure

Searching for the precise, complexly folded three-dimensional structure of a protein can be like hacking through a jungle without a map: a long, intensive process with uncertain direction.

16 Oct 2015

Noninvasive Neuroimaging Helps Recognize Culprit Behind Medication-Resistant Epilepsy

Epilepsy affects more than 65 million people worldwide. One-third of these patients have seizures that are not controlled by medications. In addition, one-third have brain lesions, the hallmark of the disease, which cannot be located by conventional imaging methods.

15 Oct 2015

New Technique Helps Study Skyscraper-High Internal Waves Below the Ocean Surface

For the first time researchers directly measured the speed of a wave located 80 meters below the ocean's surface from a single satellite image. The new technique developed by researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is a major advancement in the study of these skyscraper-high internal waves that rarely break the ocean surface.

14 Oct 2015

Noninvasive Light-Based Imaging Technology Helps Peer Inside Living Brain

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have used a noninvasive light-based imaging technology to literally see inside the living brain, providing a new tool to study how diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, and brain tumors change brain tissue over time.

14 Oct 2015

New All-Optical Method May Help Record Better Images of Ultrafast Phenomena

Many mysteries of nature are locked up in the world of the very small and the very fast. Chemical reactions and material phase transitions, for example, happen on the scale of atoms -- which are about one tenth of one billionth of a meter across -- and attoseconds -- which are one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second long. A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, in collaboration with the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), Singapore, have proposed a new technique that may help record better images of such ultrafast phenomena. The team will present their work at the Frontiers in Optics, The Optical Society's annual meeting and conference in San Jose, California, USA, held from 18-22 October 2015.

14 Oct 2015

Hubble Spots Rare Wave in Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter -- the first in a series of annual portraits of the solar system's outer planets.

14 Oct 2015