X-ray reveals mysterious component of human hair
…goal was to just study materials used in hair treatments, and how they affect hair. While doing this, Stanic wondered about the diffraction patterns of hair. Diffraction is the bending…
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TU Delft in Brazil ‘People want to see a professor’
…in both the Netherlands and Brazil. They travel to Campinas about once a month to give lectures and to discuss the progress and registration of current and new dual-degree PhD…
Oldest Example Of A Chambered Heart Found In A 113 Million Year Old Fossil
…in great detail thanks to the synchrotron, a futuristic-sounding X-ray scanner that has revolutionized what paleontologists can learn about previously hidden structures in fossils. The two specimens of Rhacolepis in…
FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE’VE PEERED INTO A PREHISTORIC CREATURE’S STONY HEART
…form? Intestines? Eyeballs? How about some prehistoric fish liver? Eager researchers are on the case armed with state-of-the-art tools, so it might not be long before ancient organs are in…
Cardiac development: Getting to the heart of a good fossil
…low-oxygen environments. These deposits can preserve or mineralogically “ghost” a range of soft tissues, even complete organs, in the fossilised organism. Scientists have long known about the famous Burgess Shale…
MMV awards seven endemic-region scientists Challenge Grants to ‘exploit the Pathogen Box’
…together with accompanying grants are about training the future leaders of drug discovery in disease-endemic countries,” said Dr Timothy Wells, MMV’s Chief Scientific Officer. “These initiatives create ideal training projects….
Register for the LNLS 26th Annual Users’ Meeting (RAU)
…exchange of information about the research carried out at the facilities. With the ground break of Sirius, the new Brazilian synchrotron light source, the participation of the scientific community becomes…
Super-connectivity for one of the world’s brightest light sources
…in Campinas. Compared to the current electron accelerator with a ring of about 30 meters in diameter, Sirius will have a circumference of 518 meters and an energy level of…
Brazilian scientists reeling as federal funds slashed by nearly half
…agencies and university foundations, agrees. “There will be a huge break-up of teams which will be hard to rebuild,” he says. “We’ve climbed another step down.” Scientists were concerned about…
27th RAU – Annual Users’ Meeting
…improvement of the research structures and of the scientific instrumentation available at the synchrotron light source. The meeting represents also an opportunity for the exchange of information about the research…