A new anticancer agent developed by the University of Warwick has been studied using microfocus synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (SXRF) at I18 at Diamond Light Source. As described in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, ...
Biochemistry
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A quarter of the seafood tested from Metro Vancouver grocery stores, restaurants and sushi bars is not what you think it is.
Ecology
Jun 19, 2018
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Love is in the air at The University of Queensland with entomologist Dr Errol Hassan naming a new species of wasp after his wife to celebrate more than 50 years of marriage.
Plants & Animals
Jun 19, 2018
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have discovered a process through which gene expression in plants is regulated by light. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
Biotechnology
Jun 19, 2018
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Place a chunk of the clear mineral Iceland spar on top of an image and suddenly you'll see double, thanks to a phenomenon called double refraction—a result of a quality of the crystal material called optical anisotropy. ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 19, 2018
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Extensive new datasets about the world's birds are helping to solve the riddle of how life on Earth diversified.
Ecology
Jun 19, 2018
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Researchers have used puddle ecosystems to start to unravel the roles different bacteria play in complex communities.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 19, 2018
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Alexa has a new job: hotel concierge.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 19, 2018
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New University of Nottingham research proves that advanced materials containing molecules that switch states in response to environmental stimuli such as light can be fabricated using 3-D printing.
Materials Science
Jun 19, 2018
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The way dragonfly larvae control the water jets they use to move and breathe could have a range of engineering and medical applications, according to new research.
Engineering
Jun 19, 2018
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