Microbes are foundational for life on Earth. These tiny organisms play a major role in everything from transforming sunlight into the fundamental molecules of life. They help to produce much of the oxygen in our atmosphere. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 30, 2023
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In the 18th century, researchers attempting to read the writings of ancient, charred scrolls picked and pulled at the fragile artifacts, destroying many. Fast forward to 2015 and researchers are developing a superior method, ...
Software
Jun 4, 2015
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A quantum computer may have solved a problem in minutes that would take the fastest conventional supercomputer more than 10,000 years. A draft of a paper by Google researchers laying out the achievement leaked in recent days, ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 26, 2019
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Salamandra robotica II is a last generation amphibious robot developed by the Biorobotics Laboratory at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). It is the guest of honor at the booth of Syrobo, the founder of Innorobo, ...
Robotics
Mar 19, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial derivatives. ...
Economics & Business
Dec 21, 2009
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(Phys.org) -- Watch out, Barbie: omnivorous beasts are assembling in a 3D printer near you.
Engineering
Jul 31, 2012
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As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational tools has expanded exponentially. From facilities such as the ...
Astronomy
May 16, 2019
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On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. With concerns about food security on the rise, experts are asking: How will we feed everyone? Climate change, natural resource depletion, soil erosion, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 12, 2023
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Electrons—those little subatomic particles that help make up the atoms in our bodies and the electricity flowing through your phone or computer right now—have some properties like mass and charge that will be familiar ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 10, 2022
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Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University materials science and engineering researchers has ...
Condensed Matter
May 11, 2012
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