Roughness, the presence of irregularities on a surface, is commonly associated with slower motion and stickiness. This is true at different length scales: at human size (1 meter), it takes longer to walk along a path that ...
Nanophysics
Jan 17, 2020
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The Nitschke Group at the University of Cambridge designs hollow molecules that act as capsules or cages that enclose guest molecules. These cages have exciting potential applications in a variety of fields. They could, for ...
Materials Science
Jan 15, 2020
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"The strategy was to design the drug to be able to hook into the hole of the FTase and GGTase I, otherwise the surface of the proteins are too large and slippery," Dr. Junko Ohkanda of Shinshu University explains her strategy ...
Biochemistry
Sep 24, 2019
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A study aimed at identifying and examining the small messenger proteins used by microbes living on and inside humans has revealed an astounding diversity of more than 4,000 families of molecules – many of which have never ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 13, 2019
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An international and interdisciplinary team working at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has modeled the evolution of one of biology's most fundamental sets of building blocks and ...
Evolution
Sep 10, 2019
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Gold and silver are important elements in cluster chemistry. They are chemically very active and are thus expected to be useful substances in future technologies. A doctoral dissertation from University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, ...
Nanophysics
Sep 9, 2019
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An explosion is a complex event involving quickly changing temperatures, pressures and chemical concentrations. In a paper in the Journal of Applied Physics a special type of infrared laser, known as a swept-wavelength external ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 3, 2019
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Scientists from Japan's National Institute for Physiological Sciences and their collaborators report in a new study published in the Journal of Cell Biology that the epithelial barrier is composed of two molecular systems ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2019
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Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a new quantum computing algorithm that offers a clearer understanding of the quantum-to-classical transition, which could help model systems on the cusp of quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 31, 2019
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On bright summer days, the sunlight all around us is breaking bad by breaking bonds. Chemical bonds.
Materials Science
Jul 11, 2019
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