Recently, Prof. WANG Junfeng from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), together with international scholars, developed a novel circular permutated light-oxygen-voltage 2 ...
Optics & Photonics
May 14, 2021
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Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified, at an atomic level, how a part of a protein called PLEKHA7 interacts with a cell's membrane to regulate important intercellular communications.
Biochemistry
Apr 20, 2021
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Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin magnetic films, that they have called an incommensurate spin crystal.
General Physics
Apr 1, 2021
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Using nanoscale quantum sensors, an international research team has succeeded in exploring certain previously uncharted physical properties of an antiferromagnetic material. Based on their results, the researchers developed ...
General Physics
Feb 22, 2021
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A study led by UT Southwestern has identified a mechanism that controls the activity of proteins known as chaperones, which guide proteins to fold into the right shapes. The findings, published online today in Nature Communications, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 11, 2021
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There's a common adage that knowing the right people holds the secret to wealth and success. The flip side of that, however, is reminiscent of the country song, "Friends in Low Places": Sometimes social connections can prove ...
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2021
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Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and Columbia University in the U.S. have solved how Wnt proteins, which play a fundamental role in cell proliferation and differentiation, hitch a ride to travel from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2021
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Why do some ferroelectric materials display bubble-shaped patterning, while others display complex, labyrinthine patterns?
General Physics
Dec 21, 2020
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A team of researchers from MIT and several institutions in Korea has found that the speed of magnetic domain wall movement is fundamentally limited. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes testing ...
Scientists are working on new materials to create neuromorphic computers with a design based on the human brain. A crucial component is a memristive device, the resistance of which depends on the history of the device—just ...
Nanophysics
Nov 23, 2020
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