Researchers have discovered a highly efficient way to produce high energy photon beams. The obtained energy is a billion times higher than the energy of photons in visible light. These high-intensity gamma rays significantly ...
Optics & Photonics
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New research suggests that the boundary between South American tropical rainforests and savannas is influenced by the depth to which plants can root. Shallow rooting depth promotes the establishment of savannas. Previous ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2017
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A research team from the National University of Singapore has recently invented a novel "converter" that can harness the speed and small size of plasmons for high frequency data processing and transmission in nanoelectronics.
Nanophysics
Oct 20, 2017
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Researchers at Umeå and Stockholm universities in Sweden and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the U.S. have published a new study in the journal Molecular Cell. They show how the protein CBP affects the expression ...
Biotechnology
Oct 20, 2017
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News about the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) breaks daily—"Can Black Lives Matter Win in the Age of Trump?" "Black Lives Matter Movement Cannot Be Sued, U.S. Judge Rules," "Black Lives Matter Sign Is Repeatedly Vandalized."
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2017
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It sounds cliché, but things do get worse before they get better when oil and gas lines are being cleared of contaminants, according to Rice University researchers. Until now, nobody knew exactly why.
Materials Science
Oct 20, 2017
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On the face of it, environmentalist Bill McKibben's international climate campaign to have universities divest fossil fuel assets had limited success. Only a handful of institutions pledged to divest and it didn't affect ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2017
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Lucy, a Lab-Akita cross, was a perfectly healthy, happy nine-year-old dog until the day she started peeing blood.
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2017
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High-achieving undergraduates of color pursuing lucrative careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have their sights set on social justice, not just a big paycheck, according to a new Vanderbilt ...
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2017
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Although many studies over the past century have looked at the effect of racism on American health outcomes, an astonishingly small amount of that research has asked how it affects the health of whites.
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2017
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