The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow's cutting-edge optical technologies—such as lasers, detectors and imaging devices—is much deeper than previously believed.
Optics & Photonics
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Climate can vary across large areas of land, but it can also vary within much smaller areas such as farms. A new study by researchers at Penn State has examined whether these microclimates—the climate of a very small or restricted ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2025
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are characterized by high porosity and structural versatility. They have enormous potential, for example, for applications in electronics. However, their low electrical conductivity has so ...
Nanophysics
Jun 24, 2025
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The Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) functions like Earth's atmospheric traffic controller, directing summer monsoon flows that regulate rainfall and temperatures across East Asia. When this high-pressure system misbehaves, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2025
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Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago. Today, the bare shell of what was one of Rome's largest bath complexes mostly ...
Archaeology
Jun 24, 2025
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Animal conservationists often move elephants between herds to improve biodiversity and group health, but what if the elephants don't speak the same language?
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2025
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In an age where trust in science often feels like it's teetering on a fault line, new research from the University of Michigan offers a simple but powerful insight: When scientists share their struggles—especially their failures—they ...
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2025
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Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows.
Ecology
Jun 24, 2025
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On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've learned just about everything ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2025
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Safe and effective high explosives are critical to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) mission of stockpile stewardship. It is relatively simple to study the composition of such material before a detonation or ...
Analytical Chemistry
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