Faster computers, tap-proof communication, better car sensors—quantum technologies have the potential to revolutionize our lives just as the invention of computers or the internet once did. Experts worldwide are trying ...
Quantum Physics
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The harder you hit something—a ball, a walnut, a geode—the more likely it is to break open. Or, if it does not break open, it's more likely to at least lose a little bit of its structural integrity, the way new baseball ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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Researchers have developed a label-free and non-invasive Raman spectroscopy approach that can acquire microscopic images of biological samples and identify a wide range of biomolecules with unprecedented speed and sensitivity.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 17, 2022
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A wildfire followed by an intense rainstorm is often a recipe for disaster. Without vegetation to cushion rainfall, water runoff can turn into a fast-moving, highly destructive landslide, called a "debris flow," which often ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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Researchers have discovered Homo sapiens did indeed live and survive in the Kalahari Desert more than 20,000 years ago.
Archaeology
Aug 17, 2022
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Climate models had until recently not been performing very well predicting variation in the spring rainfall over northeast China, home to some of the country's main cereal production. This uncertainty potentially puts the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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A unique initiative is helping Indigenous people in India exchange knowledge about locally available foods to improve dietary diversity—part of the UN Sustainable Development Goal related to food security and nutrition.
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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Dispersion paints are mostly used in households for painting walls and ceilings. An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Bayreuth has now analyzed the chemical composition of two typical dispersion paints ...
Biochemistry
Aug 17, 2022
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The San Andreas Fault in California is renowned for its large and infrequent earthquakes. However, some segments of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) instead are characterized by frequent quakes of small to moderate magnitude and ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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We do it every day but barely give it a thought: chewing our food. But the "simple" process of masticating food may have played a crucial role in the evolution of our jaws, facial muscles and teeth.
Evolution
Aug 17, 2022
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