A small team of researchers affiliated with several institutions across China has conducted an in-depth study of the Sino-Tibetan language family and has concluded that it likely originated in present-day northern China. ...
If someone in the workplace is mistreated, their colleagues may respond with empathy—or with schadenfreude. The latter emotion, according to a new study by the University of Zurich, occurs primarily in highly competitive ...
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2019
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People are not the only ones to be occasionally frustrated. Some crystals also show frustrations. They do so whenever their elementary magnets, the magnetic spins, cannot align properly. Cesium copper chloride (Cs2CuCl4) ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 25, 2019
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A team of Japanese researchers has—for the first time—demonstrated preserving frozen animal cells without a cryoprotectant agent (CPA), a substance that can protect biological material from freezing damage. To keep cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 25, 2019
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When light interacts with a mirror which is moving towards it at a speed close to the speed of light, its wavelength is shifted into the extreme ultraviolet region of the spectrum. This effect was first predicted by Albert ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 25, 2019
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The human eye is particularly sensitive to green, but less sensitive to blue and red. Chemists led by Hubert Huppertz at the University of Innsbruck have now developed a new red phosphor whose light is well perceived by the ...
Materials Science
Apr 25, 2019
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Artificial savanna naturally turns into tropical rainforest when annual burning regimes are discontinued. This is the conclusion of a natural experiment carried out by researchers from the RMCA, UGent, the WWF and INERA in ...
Environment
Apr 25, 2019
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The nano research team led by professors Helge Weman and Bjørn-Ove Fimland at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) Department of Electronic Systems has succeeded in creating light-emitting diodes, ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 25, 2019
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Scientists have used the sound of the sea to discover the route taken by hot fluids that feed a supervolcano in southern Italy.
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2019
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A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville will help analyze moon rocks collected decades ago and never before opened.
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2019
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