The Flames of Betelgeuse Using the VISIR instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have imaged a complex and bright nebula around the supergiant star Betelgeuse in greater detail than ever before. This structure, which resembles flames emanating from the star, is formed as the behemoth sheds its material into space. [click to continue]
	Revolutionary Instrument-on-a-Chip Scientists know what the universe looked like when it was a baby. They know what it looks like today. What they don't know is how it looked in its youth. Thanks to technological advances, however, scientists hope to complete the photo album and provide a picture of how the cosmos developed. [click to continue]
	Astronomers discover Universe's most distant quasar A team of European astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe. [click to continue]

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	Breaking Kasha’s Rule Berkeley Lab Scientists Find Unique Luminescence in Tetrapod  Nanocrystals .  Observation of a scientific rule being broken can lead to new important applications. Such would seem to be the case when scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab  created artificial molecules of semiconductor nanocrystals. [click to continue]
	Magnetic memory and logic could achieve ultimate energy efficiency Scientists know what the universe looked like when it was a baby. They know what it looks like today. What they don't know is how it looked in its youth. Thanks to technological advances, however, scientists hope to complete the photo album and provide a picture of how the cosmos developed. [click to continue]
	The physics of Tiberian singing bowls Researchers have been investigating the connection between fifth century Himalayan instruments used in religious ceremonies and modern physics. In a study published in IOP Publishing’s journal Nonlinearity, researchers have captured high speed images of the dynamics of fluid-filled Tibetan bowls. [click to continue]

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	Copper reduces infection risk by more than 40 percent Professor Bill Keevil, Head of the Microbiology Group and Director of the Environmental Healthcare Unit at the University of Southampton, has presented research into the mechanism by which copper exerts its antimicrobial effect on antibiotic-resistant organisms at the World Health Organization's first International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC). [click to continue]
	When Viruses Infect Bacteria Viruses are the most abundant parasites on Earth. Well known viruses, such as the flu virus, attack human hosts, while viruses such as the tobacco mosaic virus infect plant hosts. More common, but less understood, are cases of viruses infecting bacteria known as bacteriophages, or phages. [click to continue]
	Radar for the human eye Cataracts are the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. But the standard test to detect the cloudy patches in the eye’s lens requires a $5,000 piece of equipment called a slit lamp, and a trained physician to interpret its results — two things that are often not available in rural and less-affluent parts of the world.. [click to continue]

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	Warming ocean layers will undermine polar ice sheets Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research. Such melting would increase the sea level more than already projected.. [click to continue]
	Pigeons never forget a face New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes .  Researchers have shown that urban pigeons that have never been caught or handled can recognise individuals, probably by using facial characteristics .. [click to continue]
	Nature Uses Screws and Nuts A team of EuropeanA musculoskeletal system so far unknown in the animal world was recently discovered in weevils. The hip of Trigonopterus oblongus does not consist of the usual hinges, but of joints based on a screw-and-nut system. This first biological screw thread is about half a millimeter in size and was studied in detail using synchrotron radiation in the early Universe. [click to continue]

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	Why 'event cloaks' could be the key to the ultimate bank heist In this month's special issue of Physics World, which examines the science and applications of invisibility, Martin McCall and Paul Kinsler of Imperial College London describe a new type of invisibility cloak that does not just hide objects – but events. [click to continue]
	The book of secrets It has baffled code-breakers and linguists for centuries, now some wonder whether an unreadable 600-year-old book was a prank. Somewhere   deep in the bowels of Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Library lies a tome that experts have studied for centuries, but which has yet to be understood by a single soul. [click to continue]
	"It's Sad But True That Most Discoveries In Biology Are Made By Physicists" - Freeman Dyson Wilson da Silva, Editor-in-Chief of COSMOS, a science publication in Australia, was attending a lecture by Freeman Dyson lecture when Dyson said, "It's sad but true that most discoveries in biology are made by physicists.". [click to continue]

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