During his PhD research at Harvard University, AMOLF group leader Bas Overvelde developed a smart method for designing and investigating new metamaterials. For such materials the microstructure determines the function, rather ...
General Physics
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Although it sounds hard to believe, everything we see with the naked eye or through microscopes and telescopes accounts for just 4 percent of the known universe. The rest comprises dark energy (69 percent) and dark matter ...
General Physics
Jan 23, 2017
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Professor Cafer T. Yavuz and his team at the Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability (EEWS) of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an adsorbent that can selectively ...
Materials Science
Jan 23, 2017
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Using visualisation technology developed at Linköping University under the auspices of Visualization Center C, visitors to the British Museum can reveal the murder of the mummified Geberlein Man, 5,500 years ago. This world-leading ...
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2017
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The first molecular study of an organism able to survive intracellular freezing (freezing within its cells) is published this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), in collaboration with researchers from the University of ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2017
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It might be hard to imagine what link there could be between a huge scientific machine underneath Geneva and a field of tomatoes in Lebanon but both need advanced technology to achieve their best results. Even if they seem ...
General Physics
Jan 23, 2017
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The textbook description of chromatin, the condensed form DNA takes when it is not in use, consists of rigid building-blocks called nucleosomes, which act as spindles on which inactive DNA can be spooled and archived. But ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 23, 2017
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As Donald Trump is sworn in today at noon as the 45th president of the United States, Virginia Commonwealth University political science professor Deirdre Condit, Ph.D., says the country remains deeply divided, and she ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2017
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Young children who display disruptive behavior reduce those behaviors when their teacher spends extra time playing individually with them, according to a new University of Virginia study published in December in the journal ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2017
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There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that "the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly reflect differences in labour productivity".
Economics & Business
Jan 23, 2017
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