Dazzling dragonfly wings may send poets rhapsodizing, but scientists yearn for a better understanding. In particular, they want to know the chemistry of the different layers giving rise to natural photonic crystals that help ...
Materials Science
Nov 2, 2017
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There is a difference between male and female physics faculty salaries and the culture of physics is partly to blame, according to an article that is available for free this month from Physics Today, the world's most influential ...
Social Sciences
Nov 2, 2017
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Scientists have discovered that a 'rare' type of marine bacteria is much more widespread than previously thought—and possesses a remarkable metabolism that could contribute to greenhouse gas production.
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2017
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Planting cannabis for commercial production in remote locations is creating forest fragmentation, stream modification, soil erosion and landslides. Without land-use policies to limit its environmental footprint, the impacts ...
Environment
Nov 2, 2017
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A new technology that simulates tumors has been shown to perform as well as research animals in testing chemotherapy drugs, representing a potential tool for screening drugs before treating a patient.
Biochemistry
Nov 2, 2017
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Beneath an elegant office building with a Spanish-style red tiled roof in Pasadena, California, three timeworn storerooms safeguard more than a century of astronomy. Down the stairs and to the right is a basement of wonder. ...
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2017
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Working with an international team of breeders and genome scientists, plant biologists at the University of Georgia have sequenced the genome of garden asparagus as a model for sex chromosome evolution. The work sheds light ...
Biotechnology
Nov 2, 2017
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The quest to develop ever-faster and more powerful computers has led to one of the most rudimentary methods of counting being given a 21st century make-over.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 2, 2017
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Polymers are widely used in industry and increasingly deployed as replacements for metals in the manufacture of automobile parts, firearms and other products. Such parts are marked with serial numbers for security and traceability ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 2, 2017
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Phytoplankton, unicellular photosynthetic microbes, play a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and fuel marine food webs. Globally, phytoplankton productivity is regulated by the availability of essential nutrients ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2017
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