Researchers have developed a new type of bifocal lens that offers a simple way to achieve two foci (or spots) with intensities that can be adjusted by applying external voltage. The lenses, which use two layers of liquid ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 1, 2024
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During election season, when campaign ads dominate TV, political billboards dot highways, and canvassers knock on doors, the implication is that political tensions are at their highest and will surely drop once elections ...
Political science
Oct 1, 2024
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A group of essential signaling molecules known as the Wnt pathway emerged early in the evolution of multicellular life. Scientists have been studying Wnt actions for four decades to comprehend its complex roles in development ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 1, 2024
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An international research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Siegen has synthesized a new compound, which forms a so-called covalent organic framework. The compound, which is ...
Polymers
Oct 1, 2024
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The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed its main trigger. The research is ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2024
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The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket pending an investigation into why the rocket's second stage missed its deorbit landing target zone after this weekend's Crew-9 launch ...
Space Exploration
Oct 1, 2024
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Scientists at TU Delft and the Max Planck Institute have made a new class of structurally adaptable 'mechanical' pores made from DNA that can transport molecules through cell membranes. These innovative nanopores can open ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 1, 2024
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Researchers have identified a gene that enables mammalian cells to survive for long periods at extremely low temperatures, which animals experience during hibernation.
Plants & Animals
Oct 1, 2024
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A team of engineers and physicists at quantum computing company Quantinuum has conducted the first-ever teleportation of a logical qubit using fault-tolerant methods. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group ...
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 1, 2024
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