Which came first, the acorn or the oak? A more important question is which came first: our words for trees, or our understandings of what trees are?
Ecology
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The diamond in an engagement ring, the wonder-material graphene and the lead in a humble pencil are all formed from carbon, but display profoundly different characteristics. Carbon materials such as these are among the most ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 30, 2023
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A Sacramento Black-led land conservation nonprofit will soon take control of hundreds of acres in the Sierra Nevada, opening up opportunity for more Californians to explore the outdoors.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2023
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Increasing organic carbon in soils has been promoted as a way to help combat climate change while also improving soil fertility and crop yields, but a new paper shows that promised yield increases at a global scale would ...
Ecology
Oct 30, 2023
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75 years ago Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory," showed how information transmission can be quantified mathematically, namely via the so-called information transmission rate.
General Physics
Oct 30, 2023
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Metamaterials, famously likened to Harry Potter's invisible cloak, are artificial nano structures designed to manipulate light properties. However, the practical application of this technology in everyday life depends on ...
Nanophysics
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They look like storm clouds that could fit on the head of a pin: Organoids are three-dimensional cell cultures that play a key role in medical and clinical research. This is thanks to their ability to replicate tissue structures ...
Biotechnology
Oct 30, 2023
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Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to researchers from the University of Leicester. They have shown that a single cat hair contains DNA which could link a suspect and a crime-scene, or a victim.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 30, 2023
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Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant's puzzling history.
Astronomy
Oct 30, 2023
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Recently, Professor Qi Weihong of Northwestern Polytechnical University and Academician Liu Weimin of Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that nickel nanoparticle-modified defective molybdenum ...
Optics & Photonics
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