Many resources essential to the technology on which we depend are dwindling or are increasingly inaccessible to certain nations for geopolitical reasons. A case in point is that several of the rare metallic elements that ...
Space Exploration
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When fabricating integrated circuits and different types of silicon-based devices, researchers need to position dopant nanostructures in specific ways with high levels of precision. However, arranging these structures at ...
Scientists at Nagoya University and colleagues in Japan have identified two antagonistic genes involved in rice plant stem growth. Their findings, published in the journal Nature, could lead to new ways for genetically modifying ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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A research team has found a new type of giant barocaloric (BC) material (hexagonal sulfides) and discovered an important role of electrons in boosting the total entropy change driven by hydrostatic pressure.
Materials Science
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Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a computational imaging and quantitative phase imaging (QPI) technique. It effectively tackles the trade-off between resolution and field-of-view (FOV) in conventional microscopy. ...
Optics & Photonics
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Sophora alopecuroides is an important traditional Chinese medicine. Salt stress, as one of the most hampering abiotic factors, can severely affect plant growth and crop yield. It is of great significance to improve the salt ...
Bio & Medicine
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An ultra-long circulating nanomaterial has been developed by researchers through the conjugation of CHMFL-ABL-053 to an amphiphilic polymer and subsequent self-assembly into a nanoparticle (NP) with high loading.
Bio & Medicine
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Radiation variations over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are crucial for global climate and regional ecological environment. Previous radiation studies over the TP were widely based on ground and satellite measurements of the radiation ...
Earth Sciences
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It's something like a modern-day chuckwalla, strolling in sand dunes on an island in what now is the Grand Canyon region.
Archaeology
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Ice is melting at a surprisingly fast rate underneath Shirase Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica due to the continuing influx of warm seawater into the Lützow-Holm Bay.
Earth Sciences
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