Optoelectronics—technology that gives off, detects, or controls light—are used everywhere in modern electronics and include devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and solar cells. Within these devices, the movement ...
Nanophysics
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Genetically encoded reporter proteins have been a mainstay of biotechnology research, allowing scientists to track gene expression, understand intracellular processes and debug engineered genetic circuits.
Biotechnology
Aug 25, 2021
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Sensitive detection and imaging in bio-microenvironment is highly desired in biophotonic and biomedical applications. However, conventional photonic materials inevitably show incompatibility and invasiveness to bio-systems. ...
Optics & Photonics
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SiC photonics has been developed for over a decade, one of the major obstacles is the difficulty of fabricating ultralow optical loss SiC thin-films. Scientists in China have fabricated an ultralow loss 4H-SiCOI platform ...
Optics & Photonics
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Lizards and snakes are a key component of most terrestrial ecosystems on earth today. Along with the charismatic tuatara of New Zealand (a "living fossil" represented by a single living species), squamates (all lizards and ...
Evolution
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A team of researchers led by Director Rod Ruoff at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), including graduate students at the Ulsan National Institute of Science ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 25, 2021
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Water is the most abundant yet least understood liquid in nature. It exhibits many strange behaviors that scientists still struggle to explain. While most liquids get denser as they get colder, water is most dense at 39 degrees ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 25, 2021
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Scientists studying tropical forests in Africa's mountains were surprised to uncover how much carbon they store, and how fast some of these forests are being cleared.
Environment
Aug 25, 2021
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An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of their application. They found that the increased use of antibiotics in medicine ...
Ecology
Aug 25, 2021
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The oldest genome of a modern human from the Wallacea region—the islands between western Indonesia and Papua New Guinea—indicates a previously undescribed ancient human relationship. Researchers were able to isolate sufficient ...
Archaeology
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