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Optics & Photonics 42 minutes ago

A router for photons: Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive ...

Plants & Animals 2 hours ago

Sensing sickness: Study supports new method for boosting bee health

Beekeepers in the United States lost more than 55% of managed colonies last year—the highest loss rate since the Apiary Inspectors of America began determining them in 2011.

Biotechnology 12 hours ago

Edible biofilm based on pomegranate peel extract extends the shelf life of strawberries

An edible biofilm, obtained from agricultural and fishing waste and developed by researchers at the São Carlos Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo (IQSC-USP) in Brazil, allows the shelf life of strawberries ...

Plants & Animals 12 hours ago

Making moves and hitting the breaks: Owl journeys surprise researchers in western Montana

Researchers have tracked 89 northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus) along a migration corridor in Western Montana, underscoring the efficacy of telemetry studies for detailed investigations into the movements of birds.

Earth Sciences 13 hours ago

North America is dripping from below, geoscientists discover

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the reason why.

Earth Sciences 13 hours ago

Enhanced westerly winds lead to increased ocean heat transport to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, study finds

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including researchers from the National Institute of Polar Research, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science ...

Planetary Sciences 14 hours ago

Sampling the plumes of Jupiter's volcano moon, Io

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science ...

Space Exploration 14 hours ago

Modeling lunar in-situ resource utilization can help plan future prototypes

In-situ resource utilization will likely play a major role in any future long-term settlement of the moon. However, designing such a system in advance with our current level of knowledge will prove difficult, mainly because ...

Nanophysics 14 hours ago

Doubling down on metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light

Almost a decade ago, Harvard engineers unveiled the world's first visible-spectrum metasurfaces—ultra-thin, flat devices patterned with nanoscale structures that could precisely control the behavior of light. A powerful ...

Biotechnology 14 hours ago

Microalgae and bacteria team up to convert carbon dioxide into useful products

Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon sources, however, adding ...

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