Experiments with ultracold magnetic atoms reveal liquid-like quantum droplets that are 20 times larger than previously observed droplets.

In experiments with magnetic atoms conducted at extremely low temperatures, scientists have demonstrated a unique phase of matter: The atoms form a new type of quantum liquid or quantum droplet state. These quantum droplets may preserve their form in absence of external confinement because of quantum effects. “Our Quantum droplets are in the gas phase but they still drop like a rock,” explains experimental physicist Francesca Ferlaino.

In the laboratory, her team observed how macrodroplets formed in a quantum gas...

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Scientists working on a revolutionary telescope project have harnessed the power of distributed computing from the UK’s GridPP collaboration to tackle one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries – the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Researchers at The University of Manchester have used resources provided by GridPP – who represent the UK’s contribution to the computing grid used to find the Higgs boson at CERN – to run image processing and machine learning algorithms on thousands of images of galaxies from the international Dark Energy Survey, DES.

The team is part of the collaborative project to build the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a new kind of telescope currently under construction in Chile and designed to conduct a 10-year survey of...

Stage IV is when the invasive breast cancer has spread beyond the breast to nearby lymph nodes to other organs, such as the lungs, skin, bones, liver, and the brain, This may also be called, advanced stage or mechanistic stage of cancer, IV cancer a be a reoccurrence of previous cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

A team from Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that controlling the levels of the TIP60 protein, which is a tumor suppressor, could potentially prevent the spread of breast cancer cells. Specifically, TIP60 interacts with two other proteins DNMT1 and SNAIL2, to inhibit the spread of cancer cells...

Overdoses from opioids like painkillers might become a thing of the pas–a vaccine to combat drug overdose is on the horizon. Eric Norris via Flickr, CC by 2.0

Scientists TSRI have developed a vaccine that blocks the pain-numbing effects of the opioid drugs oxycodone (oxy) and hydrocodone (hydro) in animal models. The vaccine also appears to decrease the risk of fatal opioid overdose, a growing cause of death in the United States. “We saw both blunting of the drug’s effects and, remarkably, prevention of drug lethality,” said Prof. Kim D. Janda.

MOA: The new oxy/hydro vaccine takes advantage of the immune system’s ability to recognize, seek out and neutralize invaders. Opioids were designed to reach receptors in the brain, causing pain reduction and feelings of euphoria...