The iconic sound of an orchestra tuning is highly recognizable, even for those who've never set foot in a concert hall. Many of us first heard it while watching a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Other
Nov 11, 2024
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The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment are as problematic as the plastics are useful. In an article published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a German research ...
Polymers
Nov 11, 2024
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Three Virginia Tech Center for Ecosystem Forecasting researchers were among 23 global experts to call for scaling up current near-term—daily to decade—iterative ecological forecasting in an article recently published in Nature ...
Environment
Nov 11, 2024
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Surprising findings on bacterial aging have emerged from a study carried out by a team of researchers led by the biologist Dr. Ulrich Steiner at Freie Universität Berlin. In a new paper published in Science Advances, the ...
Evolution
Nov 11, 2024
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Perth is no stranger to hot and dry summers, but the period from October 2023 to April 2024 was exceptional. The city's rainfall for these seven months was only 23 millimeters, the lowest since records began in the 1870s. ...
Ecology
Nov 11, 2024
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Most of the disease-causing bacteria secrete matrix-like layers around themselves called biofilms. These biofilms act as thick barriers limiting the entry of drugs and helping the bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 11, 2024
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Two quantum information theorists at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have solved a decades-old problem that will require fewer qubits to suppress more errors in quantum hardware.
Quantum Physics
Nov 11, 2024
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest recipes in the universe, like the quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter known to have existed shortly ...
General Physics
Nov 11, 2024
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Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have a great potential for scientific and medical applications. They are used in research laboratories to model human diseases, helping to uncover underlying mechanisms and developing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 11, 2024
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Placing a mass driver on the moon has long been a dream of space exploration enthusiasts. It would open up so many possibilities for the exploration of our solar system and the possibility of actually living in space.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2024
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