Stone Age cities sound like something of an oxymoron. But as many as 10 000 people lived in Çatalhöyük in Turkey some 8000-9000 years ago. This makes it the largest known settlement from what archaeologists call the Neolithic ...
Archaeology
Nov 9, 2021
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A team of physicists, led by Dr. David Phillips from the University of Exeter, have pioneered a new way in which to control light that has been scrambled by passage through a single hair-thin strand of optical fiber. These ...
General Physics
Jun 18, 2021
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The Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Europe today announced the first demonstration of quantum communication over optical fibers exceeding 600 km in length. The breakthrough will enable long-distance, quantum-secured ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 8, 2021
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A new study has shown how food processing changes dietary fiber structure and so affects the nutritional value of food.
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2021
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Simple systems can reproduce faster than complex ones. So, how can the complexity of life have arisen from simple chemical beginnings? Starting with a simple system of self-replicating fibers, chemists at the University of ...
Biochemistry
Mar 17, 2021
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Recycling of composite materials could be up to 70 percent cheaper and lead to a 90-95 percent reduction in CO2 emissions compared to standard manufacturing.
Materials Science
Mar 8, 2021
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The Pazyryk carpet is the world's oldest example of a knotted-pile carpet and is kept at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The carpet, which was made out of new wool at around 400 BC, is one of the most ...
Archaeology
Mar 5, 2021
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Researchers from the University of Southampton and Université Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibres that is around 10,000 times lower than conventional ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 16, 2021
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After an injury to the spinal cord, patients often remain paralyzed because damaged nerve tracts do not regrow due to the formation of scar tissue. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, ...
Biotechnology
Jan 18, 2021
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Households in Europe and North America are flooding the oceans with plastic pollution simply by washing their clothes, scientists said Tuesday after research found the majority of microplastics in Arctic seawater were polyester ...
Environment
Jan 12, 2021
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