The increasing miniaturisation in electronics will result in components which consist of only a few molecules, or even just one molecule. Tiny wires are required to connect these to an electrical circuit at the nano level. ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 27, 2017
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Massey scientists captured some astonishing footage of a great white shark on a recent research expedition to the Southwest Pacific.
Ecology
Oct 27, 2017
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Yeah, it's temporary, but you still might want to think twice before posting that.
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2017
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A new tool has been developed by scientists at the University of Manchester to help reverse the decline in some of the world's most endangered species of amphibians.
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2017
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ETH researchers succeeded in shortening the pulse duration of an X‑ray laser to only 43 attoseconds. With a time resolution in the range of a few quintillionths of a second, they are now able for the first time to observe ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 27, 2017
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UC San Francisco researchers recently captured exquisite images of a protein caught in the act of binding to a novel therapeutic drug with enough resolution to model how the individual atoms of the protein and drug lined ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 27, 2017
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Are fires always bad? Not necessarily. Wildfires are almost always destructive and dangerous since they can take out swaths of land with abandon and without any forethought. But prescribed fires can actually be good ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2017
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If you think technologies from Star Trek seem far-fetched, think again. Many of the devices from the acclaimed television series are slowly becoming a reality. While we may not be teleporting people from starships to a planet's ...
Superconductivity
Oct 27, 2017
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Helge Grosshans and his group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) have identified two distinct modes of transcription termination – one dependent on, and one independent of, the highly conserved ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 27, 2017
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Although Twitter was once the preferred platform of the Islamic State group, the social network's counter-extremism policies – including content removal – contributed to a decline in activity by IS supporters. New research ...
Internet
Oct 27, 2017
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