The fusion of two protons initiates the primary nuclear cycle that powers the Sun. The rate of this low-energy, weak-interaction fusion is too small to be measured in the laboratory. While nuclear model predictions for this ...
General Physics
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The L3-HAPLS advanced petawatt laser system was installed last week at the ELI Beamlines Research Center in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic. L3-HAPLS – the world's most advanced and highest average power, diode-pumped ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 20, 2017
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The amount of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere is once again increasing rapidly after a period of stagnation through 2007. The cause of this recent increase is the subject of heated scientific debate. Scenarios ...
Environment
Dec 20, 2017
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It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars. Such planets must have an enormous atmosphere that convert the deadly X-rays and high energy particles of the pulsar into heat. This is the conclusion ...
Astronomy
Dec 20, 2017
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There is one year to go until asteroid 2015 TB145 approaches Earth once again, just as it did in 2015 around the night of Halloween, during which astronomers studied its characteristics. This dark object measures between ...
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2017
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Our genes (aka. the genotype) determine our characteristics (aka. the phenotype). Evolution acts on changes in the phenotype, which occur when mutations change the underlying genotype. But what changes to the phenotype can ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 20, 2017
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In coming years, there is a legal commitment for all the countries of Europe to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, which boils down to constructing nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs), buildings that consume the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 20, 2017
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A joint excavation team from Osaka University and the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences discovered the ruins of a unique monument surrounded by 14 large stone pillars with Turkic Runic ...
Archaeology
Dec 20, 2017
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A platform to improve smartphone security and that of other electronic devices was recently presented in Canada in an international conference on security and privacy, the Workshop on Security and Privacy on Internet of Things. ...
Security
Dec 20, 2017
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The ability of plants to tolerate cold stress is fundamental in determining the growing season and geographical distribution of plants. Local temperature anomalies caused by global climate change directly threaten crop production. ...
Biotechnology
Dec 20, 2017
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