A wide international collaboration involving researchers from four countries – China, Australia, Germany and Finland – have managed to synthesize and characterize two previously unknown, record-large silver nanoclusters ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 9, 2016
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Ordinary citizens can be of a great help in improving maritime safety. A new, innovative solution by the ESABALT project of BONUS, the joint Baltic Sea research and development programme, enables leisure boaters to make observations ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2016
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Finnish researchers have demonstrated that photoinhibition of photosystem I, which reduces the effectiveness of photosynthesis, is actually a plant's self-defense mechanism against more extensive harm. The research was funded ...
Biotechnology
Mar 24, 2016
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This year marks 30 years since the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Vast amounts of radioactive particles spread over large areas in Europe. These particles, mostly Cesium-137, cause a low but long-term exposure to ionizing radiation ...
Environment
Feb 10, 2016
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The conventional approach to decode information carried by ultrafast optical signals that propagate in optical fibers employs fast detectors that convert the temporal intensity variations of a light beam into an RF electrical ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 9, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Colorado State University, USA, have for the first time ever determined the dynamical behaviour of the ligand layer of a water-soluble gold nanocluster in solution. ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 21, 2016
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Recent research demonstrates that an evolutionarily conserved molecular code, present on cell surface adhesion molecules, is a critical regulator of cell motility. The prehistorical code identified by the researchers finally ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2016
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Changes in environmental conditions may affect epidemics not only by altering the number of free-living pathogens but also by directly increasing pathogen virulence with immediate changes in the physiological status of infecting ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 13, 2016
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The size of returning Atlantic salmon is largely dependent on the number of years that the salmon remains at sea before returning to spawn in the river. The genetic basis of this trait has not been previously known, making ...
Biotechnology
Nov 4, 2015
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Åbo Akademi University is coordinating the international research project "PShapes". PShapes stands for "Polysaccharides bio shapes – chemical design and shaping into new biomaterials" and started in May 2014. This is ...
Materials Science
Oct 30, 2015
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