The COVID-19 virus holds some mysteries. Scientists remain in the dark on aspects of how it fuses and enters the host cell; how it assembles itself; and how it buds off the host cell.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 26, 2021
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Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" have achieved a breakthrough—creating a completely new type of plasma by combining state-of-the-art technologies using ultrashort laser pulses ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 12, 2021
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A research team led by Professor Chi-Ming Che and Dr. Jun Yang, from the Research Division for Chemistry and Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science of the University of Hong Kong, has resolved a long-standing fundamental ...
Materials Science
Jan 19, 2021
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Efficiently simulating the noise generated by wings and propellers promises to accelerate the development of quieter aircraft and turbines.
General Physics
Sep 28, 2020
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QUT researchers are working to design faster, cheaper, and better ways to store food.
Materials Science
Sep 14, 2020
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The offspring of older mothers don't fare as well as those of younger mothers, in humans and many other species. They aren't as healthy, or they don't live as long, or they have fewer offspring themselves. A longstanding ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2020
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Gene editing technology is getting better and growing faster than ever before. New and improved base editors—an especially efficient and precise kind of genetic corrector—inch the tech closer to treating genetic diseases ...
Biotechnology
Jun 12, 2020
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Combined theoretical and experimental work has resulted in a novel mechanism through which criticality emerges in quasiperiodic structures—a finding that provides unique insight into the physics on the middle ground between ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 2, 2020
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If you even bother to think about friction at all, you might think about rubbing your hands together to warm them up.
Nanophysics
May 21, 2020
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A single cell contains the genetic instructions for an entire organism. This genomic information is managed and processed by the complex machinery of chromatin—a mix of DNA and protein within chromosomes whose function ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 10, 2020
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