Farmers add calcium to their soil for many reasons related to increasing crop yields—including regulating pH and improving soil structure.
Ecology
Nov 20, 2023
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The movement of electrons across wires is what allows us to use electricity every day. Biological nanowires, microscopic wires made of proteins, have caught researchers' attention for their ability to carry electrons over ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 1, 2023
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Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers "see" the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Oct. 31 in PLOS ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2023
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Combining electronics with infrared light can enable small, fast, and sensitive devices for sensing, imaging, and signaling at the molecular level. However, in the infrared spectrum, materials must meet strict quality requirements ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 26, 2023
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A study published in the journal Science China Chemistry found that PBA3[InCl6]·H2O exhibits a special "herringbone" stacking mode that enables abundant weak interactions between organic ligands and metal halide units. While ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 24, 2023
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The timeliness and accuracy of detection technology is directly related to the safety of people's lives and property. In the application of this technology, temperature is a physical quantity that must to be focused on. Compared ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 19, 2023
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany, have long been exploring the effect of using tailored laser drives to manipulate the properties of quantum materials ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 12, 2023
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DNA, RNA, and proteins are three pillars of molecular biology. While DNA holds genetic instructions and proteins put these plans to action, RNA serves as the messenger and interpreter. DNA is transcribed to RNA, which then ...
Biotechnology
Oct 11, 2023
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The outer planets of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, are water-rich gas giants. These planets have extreme pressures 2 million times the Earth's atmosphere. They also have interiors as hot as the surface of the sun. ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 9, 2023
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Scientists have caught fast-moving hydrogen atoms—the keys to countless biological and chemical reactions—in action.
General Physics
Oct 6, 2023
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