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    New Material could lead to Erasable and Rewriteable Optical Chips

    December 8, 2016, Categories  Technology/Electronics, Chemistry/Nanotechnology, Physics

    By harnessing the photoswitchable Rabi splitting, we develop all-optical light modulators and rewritable waveguides. The demonstration of Rabi splitting in the HPWMs will further advance scientific research and device applications of hybrid plasmon–molecule systems.

    By harnessing the photoswitchable Rabi splitting, all-optical light modulators and rewritable waveguides were developed. The demonstration of Rabi splitting in the HPWMs (hybrid plasmon–waveguide modes)  will further advance scientific research and device applications of hybrid plasmon–molecule systems.

    A military drone flying on a reconnaissance mission is captured behind enemy lines, setting into motion a team of engineers who need to remotely delete sensitive information carried on the drone’s chips. Because the chips are optical and not electronic, the engineers can now simply flash a beam of UV light onto the chip to instantly erase all content. Disaster averted...

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    Cassini beams back 1st Images from new Orbit

    December 8, 2016, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This collage of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere and rings as viewed with four different spectral filters. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    This collage of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s northern hemisphere and rings as viewed with four different spectral filters. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    Scenes include Saturn’s hexagon-shaped jet stream. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has sent to Earth its first views of Saturn’s atmosphere since beginning the latest phase of its mission. The new images show scenes from high above Saturn’s northern hemisphere. Cassini began its new mission phase, called its Ring-Grazing Orbits, on Nov. 30. Each of these weeklong orbits – 20 in all – carries the spacecraft high above Saturn’s northern hemisphere before sending it skimming past the outer edges of the planet’s main rings.

    Cassini’s imaging cameras acquired these latest views on Dec...

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    Saturn’s Bulging Core implies Moons Younger than thought

    December 8, 2016, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Saturn and moons. A quintet of Saturn's moons come together in this portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Janus is seen on the far left, Pandora orbits near the middle, Enceladus appears above the center, and Rhea and Mimas are seen on the right side. A quintet of Saturn's moons come together in the Cassini spacecraft's field of view for this portrait. Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is on the far left. Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) orbits between the A ring and the thin F ring near the middle of the image. Brightly reflective Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) appears above the center of the image. Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across), is bisected by the right edge of the image. The smaller moon Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) can be seen beyond Rhea also on the right side of the image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    Saturn and moons. A quintet of Saturn’s moons come together in this portrait from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Janus is seen on the far left, Pandora orbits near the middle, Enceladus appears above the center, and Rhea and Mimas are seen on the right side. A quintet of Saturn’s moons come together in the Cassini spacecraft’s field of view for this portrait. Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is on the far left. Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) orbits between the A ring and the thin F ring near the middle of the image. Brightly reflective Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) appears above the center of the image. Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across), is bisected by the right edge of the image...

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    Cancer Spread is increased by a High Fat Diet, ground-breaking evidence shows

    December 8, 2016, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Targeting metastasis-initiating cells through the fatty acid receptor CD36

    Targeting metastasis-initiating cells through the fatty acid receptor CD36

    A specific protein, CD36 found in the cell membranes of tumour cells, is responsible for taking up fatty acids. This unique CD36 activity and dependence on fatty acids distinguishes metastasis-initiating cells from other tumour cells. The work was published today in the journal Nature. Professor Benitah’s team found CD36 was present on metastatic cancer cells from patients with a range of different tumours including oral tumours, melanoma skin cancer, ovarian, bladder, lung and breast cancer. To confirm its essential role in cancer spread, they added CD36 to non-metastatic cancer cells which then caused the cells to become metastatic.

    “Although we have not yet tested this in all tumour types, we can state that CD36 ...

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