Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents. The results were published in the scientific journal Nature Physics by an international collaboration ...
Astronomy
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The team of Professor Jinyang Liang, a specialist in ultrafast imaging at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), in collaboration with an international team of researchers, has developed the fastest camera ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 8, 2020
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Research has found a proposal to regulate mining of Indigenous lands in Brazil's Amazon rainforest could affect more than 863,000 square kilometers of forest and harm the nation's economy.
Earth Sciences
Sep 18, 2020
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An international collaboration involving Duke-NUS Medical School and Monash University researchers has made an unexpected world-first stem cell discovery that may lead to new treatments for placenta complications during pregnancy.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 16, 2020
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Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists aren't sure just how much there actually is in the Sun's atmosphere, where it is hard to measure. Knowing the amount of helium in the ...
Astronomy
Aug 7, 2020
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Inside every cell lies a genome—a full set of DNA that contains the instructions for building an organism. Across the biological world, genomes show a staggering diversity in size. For example, the genome of the Japanese ...
Evolution
Aug 6, 2020
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New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world, an international collaboration led by the University of Zurich has shown. The study presents a list of almost 14,000 plant species, compiled from online catalogs ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2020
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Glass is an immensely interesting archaeological material: While its fragility and beauty is fascinating in itself, geochemical studies of invisible tracers can reveal more than what meets the eye. In a new international ...
Archaeology
Jul 9, 2020
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Liquid droplets formed from DNA display a peculiar response to enzymes. An international collaboration between LMU and UCSB has now been able to explain the mechanisms behind bubble formation.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 30, 2020
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An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emissions from quasars, galaxies with a highly energetic nucleus, are not concentrated in ...
Astronomy
Jun 17, 2020
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