Teams work better with a little help from your friends
Here's something both you and your boss can agree on: Workplace teams are better when they include your friends.
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2017
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Routes out of isolation for Yellowstone grizzlies
In summer of 2017, biologists from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks confirmed sightings of a grizzly bear in the Big Belt Mountains northeast of Helena, Montana. The bear, an adventurous vanguard from its home range in the ...
Ecology
Oct 23, 2017
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Researchers bring optical communication onto silicon chips
The huge increase in computing performance in recent decades has been achieved by squeezing ever more transistors into a tighter space on microchips.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 23, 2017
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Single-molecule dissection of developmental gene control
Scientists at EPFL and Max Plank have made significant discoveries on how developmental genes are controlled by the methyltransferase enzyme PRC2. The study is published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 23, 2017
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Fifty simulations of the 'Really Big One' show how a 9.0 Cascadia earthquake could play out
One of the worst nightmares for many Pacific Northwest residents is a huge earthquake along the offshore Cascadia Subduction Zone, which would unleash damaging and likely deadly shaking in coastal Washington, Oregon, British ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2017
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Expanding Brazilian sugarcane could dent global CO2 emissions
Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 5.6 percent, researchers report in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Biotechnology
Oct 23, 2017
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Resistive memory components the computer industry can't resist
Make way for some new memsistors. For years, the computer industry has sought memory technologies with higher endurance, lower cost, and better energy efficiency than commercial flash memories. Now, an international collaboration ...
Nanophysics
Oct 23, 2017
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Scientists develop new theory of molecular evolution
Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the University College London have developed a new theory of molecular evolution, offering insights into how genes function, how the rates of evolutionary ...
Biochemistry
Oct 23, 2017
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Wriggling microtubules help understand coupling of 'active' defects and curvature
Imagine a tiny donut-shaped droplet, covered with wriggling worms. The worms are packed so tightly together that they must locally line up with respect to each other. In this situation, we would say the worms form a nematic ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 23, 2017
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A way to dramatically improve resolution of confocal microscopy
A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a way to dramatically improve the resolution of confocal microscopy. They describe the technique in a paper they have had published in Physical Review X.
