An old jeweler's trick could unlock next-generation nuclear clocks

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...
eLife

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain

This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.
La Brújula Verde

The Head of a Kore from Athens Found in the Ancient Etruscan City of Vulci, One of the Few Archaic Sculptures Discovered Outside Greece

The presentation in the Italian capital last Friday, in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, of a marble head more than twenty-five hundred years old, has revealed an unexpected ...
AlphaGalileo

How microtubules take part in cellular signal processing

Microtubules perform an active role in communication within the cell by transmitting received signals to the cell's functional units. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Department ...