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Archaeology Jul 30, 2024

Environmental conditions and cultivation practices when agriculture first emerged in Western Europe

About 7,000 years ago, the first farmers in the western Mediterranean selected the most fertile land available, cultivated cereal varieties very similar to today's, and made sparing use of domestic animal feces, as they do ...

Condensed Matter Jul 25, 2024

Save your data on printable magnetic devices? New laser technique's twist might make this reality

The proliferation of all things digital doesn't mean that printing technology is no longer relevant. In fact, printing technology is required to make the semiconductors necessary for the digital world. And as an Osaka Metropolitan ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 31, 2024

Real-time, cost-effective monitoring of neutron beams used in boron neutron capture therapy

Researchers from the Health Research and Technology Group at ANSTO and the University of Wollongong have developed a new device that could improve the quality control of accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy, a ...

Soft Matter Jul 26, 2024

New self-powered electrostatic tweezer enhances object manipulation and microfluidics

In a study published in Device has reported a new self-powered electrostatic tweezer that offers superior accumulation and tunability of triboelectric charges, enabling unprecedented flexibility and adaptability for manipulating ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 25, 2024

Shining light on similar crystals reveals photoreactions can differ

A rose by any other name is a rose, but what of a crystal? Osaka Metropolitan University-led researchers have found that single crystals of four anthracene derivatives with different substituents react differently when irradiated ...

Archaeology Aug 11, 2024

Forensic science cracks the 'unsolvable' case of a World War I soldier's identity, enabling his re-burial

In the early hours of July 18, 1918, the Franco-American counter-offensive against German positions began at Aisne-Marne in northern France. The first division of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) drove the German forces ...

Nanophysics Jul 24, 2024

Tunable metasurface can control optical light in space and time, offering path to wireless communication channels

It is a scene many of us are familiar with: You're working on your laptop at the local coffee shop with maybe a half dozen other laptop users—each of you is trying to load websites or stream high-definition videos, and ...

Plants & Animals Aug 1, 2024

Researchers uncover 500 million-year-old mollusk ancestor

A team of researchers including scientists from the University of Oxford have made an astonishing discovery of a new species of mollusk that lived 500 million years ago. The new fossil, called Shishania aculeata, reveals ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 25, 2024

Liquid metals offer potential for greener chemical processes, researchers say

University of Sydney researchers are proposing a new way to curb industrial emissions, by tapping into the "atomic intelligence" of liquid metals to deliver greener and more sustainable chemical reactions.

Cell & Microbiology Aug 2, 2024

New compound found to be effective against 'flesh-eating' bacteria

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a novel compound that effectively clears bacterial infections in mice, including those that can result in rare but potentially fatal "flesh-eating" ...

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