Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) demonstrated that an experimental method known as randomized compiling (RC) can dramatically reduce error rates in quantum algorithms and ...
Quantum Physics
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Large segments of society are under-represented in science and engineering within academia at every level, but particularly among tenured professors. Moreover, the groups that are most under-represented are the fastest growing ...
Education
Dec 9, 2021
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Advanced molecular imaging technology has now mapped the structure of a drug widely used to treat fungal infections but whose workings have mystified researchers and physicians for nearly 70 years.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 9, 2021
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University of Kentucky entomology researchers have found that skin triglycerides, or lipids, keep bed bugs from staying very long on human hosts. Their finding could lead to new management strategies for this important ...
Ecology
Dec 9, 2021
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A team of physicists working at the intersection of theory and experiment are shedding new light on the "teamwork" of molecular motors—called RNA polymerases (RNAPs)—that mediate DNA transcription. During transcription, ...
General Physics
Dec 9, 2021
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Using state-of-the-art technology and techniques, EMBL's Müller group has provided the most detailed structure to date of human RNA polymerase I (Pol I), offering fundamental information about cellular function for those ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 9, 2021
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Based on a unique, previously unpublished data set ranging from 1970 to 2016, an international team including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) compared long-term statistical records about pest and disease ...
Ecology
Dec 9, 2021
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The quest to deliver ultra-fast and energy efficient magnetic recording could be a step closer to fruition, due to pioneering new research on all-optical switching of magnetization.
Nanophysics
Dec 9, 2021
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Americans' attitudes and behaviors have become more liberal overall in the past 50 years and have taken a decidedly liberal tilt since the 1990s, shows a new analysis of public opinion data. Americans are substantially more ...
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2021
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Millions of people have kept a balloon aloft with a hairdryer or a ball floating with a hot-air cannon. But what if you were to shrink that down? Could scientists still hold something tiny from a distance with a highly sensitive ...
Optics & Photonics
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