Recent public demonstrations against climate change, human rights violations and industry practices that harm the environment reveal a growing public desire to participate in discussions about sustainability, safety and citizen's ...
Economics & Business
May 28, 2020
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Just as a literature buff might explore a novel for recurring themes, physicists and mathematicians search for repeating structures present throughout nature.
General Physics
May 26, 2020
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Four out of every 10 people are willing to continue to do their work from home when confinement rules related to COVID-19 are lifted —but almost just as many are hesitant or not at all inclined to do so if they can return ...
Economics & Business
May 8, 2020
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A paper published in Advanced Photonics "Enhanced light–matter interactions in dielectric nanostructures via machine-learning approach," suggests that machine-learning techniques can be used to enhance metasurfaces, optimizing ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 30, 2020
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Copper oxidation generally means tarnished surfaces and corroded electronics. But the compound Cu2O, or cuprous oxide, is a promising material for quantum photonics, optoelectronics and renewable energy technologies. Now, ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 15, 2020
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Universities across Canada and the world have been working to rapidly move their face-to-face classes to remote delivery.
Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2020
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The first demonstration of graphene double quantum dots in which it is possible to control the number of electrons down to zero has been reported in Nano Letters. Far from an abstract academic stunt, the results could prove ...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in China and the railway disruptions across Canada represent two different yet similar classic case studies.
Economics & Business
Mar 9, 2020
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The development of next-generation-sequencing (NGS) has enabled researchers to investigate genomes that might previously have been considered too complex or too expensive. Nevertheless, the analysis of complex plant genomes, ...
Biotechnology
Jan 21, 2020
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A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule. The potential applications of these nanopores are so diverse—from medicine to information ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 14, 2020
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