Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have shown that single platinum atoms trapped in C12A7 crystals act as a stable and effective catalyst for the hydrogenation of nitroarenes, an essential process in ...
Materials Science
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Researchers in South Korea have developed a new optical communications technology that can transfer data at lightning speed. The new technology sends and receives twice as much data as conventional methods. It is expected ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 24, 2020
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We do not have to look as far away as the glaciers in Norway, the fires in Australia or the floods in Brazil to see the effects of climate change. In Spain, changes are also starting to show and they will multiply in the ...
Environment
Feb 24, 2020
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Speculation about where laws come from ranges from crediting judges and legal scholars to God.
Social Sciences
Feb 24, 2020
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A new study reported in the journal Current Biology on February 24 offers some of the first evidence that gray whales might depend on a magnetic sense to find their way through the ocean. This evidence comes from the discovery ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2020
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Marine biologists have adopted "soft robotic linguine fingers" as tools to conduct their undersea research. In a study appearing February 24 in the journal Current Biology, scientists found that jellyfish held by ultra-soft ...
Ecology
Feb 24, 2020
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In one pot, at room temperature, chemists at Rice University are able to make valuable pharmaceutical precursors they say could change the industry.
Materials Science
Feb 24, 2020
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Interacting contagious diseases like influenza and pneumonia follow the same complex spreading patterns as social trends. This new finding, published in Nature Physics, could lead to better tracking and intervention when ...
General Physics
Feb 24, 2020
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The first reports of seismic activity and ground vibrations on Mars are in. The red planet has a moderate level of seismic activity, intermediate between Earth and the Moon.
Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2020
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Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and 'tornadoes' thousands of times thinner than a human hair.
Nanophysics
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