Bright surface features on the dwarf planet Ceres known as faculae were first discovered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2015. This mosaic of one such feature, Cerealia Facula, combines images obtained from altitudes as low ...
Space Exploration
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Isaac Ginis said that it is notoriously difficult to forecast hurricanes in New England. When storms move north, they develop a more complex wind structure than those remaining in the Southeast and Gulf of Mexico, their paths ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2018
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Scientists have developed a new technique that can determine how viruses interact with a host's own RNA. As well as providing insight into how viruses direct the host cell to create new virus particles, this technique, published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 10, 2018
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Fusion, the power that drives the sun and stars, produces massive amounts of energy. Scientists here on Earth seek to replicate this process, which merges light elements in the form of hot, charged plasma composed of free ...
Plasma Physics
Sep 10, 2018
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A system made of just a handful of particles acts just like larger systems, allowing scientists to study quantum behaviour more easily.
Quantum Physics
Sep 10, 2018
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Global warming will cause peatlands to absorb more carbon—but the effect will weaken as warming increases, new research suggests.
Environment
Sep 10, 2018
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An international team led by Assistant Professor Kasper Steen Pedersen, DTU Chemistry, has synthesized a novel nano material with electrical and magnetic properties making it suitable for future quantum computers and other ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 10, 2018
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Graphene—an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms—is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand ...
Nanophysics
Sep 10, 2018
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Mitosis—how one cell divides and becomes two—is one of the fundamental processes of life. Researchers at EMBL have now produced the first interactive map of proteins that make our cells divide, allowing users to track ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 10, 2018
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Steven Frankel is not hungry. He just wants to talk about noodles.
Mathematics
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