Researchers from the CNRS and Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) report that fruit flies possess the cognitive capacity to culturally transmit their sexual preferences across generations. The study, published ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2018
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How did we get from the Palm Pilots of the 90s to the ultra-powerful smart phones of today? In large part, because of scaling, where integrated circuits are made with smaller feature sizes fitting more and more circuit elements ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Nov 19, 2018
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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition in which plaque forms on the walls of coronary arteries, causing them to narrow. Eventually, this could lead to a heart attack, or death. This condition is now the single largest ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 5, 2018
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While quantum technologies have great long-term potential in computing applications, they are closer to practical use in sensing devices that will open new vistas in metrology, biology, neuroscience, and many other fields ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 26, 2018
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Realistic climate simulations require huge reserves of computational power. An LMU study now shows that new algorithms allow interactions in the atmosphere to be modeled more rapidly without loss of reliability.
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2018
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To improve biofuel production, scientists must understand the fundamental interactions that lead to the expression of key traits in plants and microbes. To understand these interactions, scientists are using different layers ...
Biotechnology
Aug 13, 2018
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University of Adelaide-led research has moved the world one step closer to reliable, high-performance quantum computing.
Nanophysics
Jul 3, 2018
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Is the web browser on your phone slower than usual? It could be mining bitcoin for criminals.
Security
Jun 29, 2018
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Micro-computed tomography or "micro-CT" is X-ray imaging in 3-D, by the same method used in hospital CT (or "CAT") scans, but on a small scale with massively increased resolution. It enables scientists and engineers to see ...
Engineering
May 9, 2018
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Yale's latest work expanding the reach of quantum information science is actually a game of quantum pitch and catch.
Quantum Physics
Apr 23, 2018
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