Because of their sedentary life, plants have to make the most of their surroundings. To do so, they take advantage of hitherto unknown molecular mechanisms to determine what benefits them and what harms them. They also grant ...
Biotechnology
May 6, 2016
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Griffith University students are using smartphone technology to make the driverless car of the future more of a reality. A team of Information and Communications Technology students from the Gold Coast campus has won an award ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 10, 2013
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Scientists knew that the microbe Shewanella oneidensis transformed the electronic structure of the iron oxide it touched in the ground as well as without direct contact. Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...
Biochemistry
Oct 6, 2010
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Charles Darwin was fascinated by the colours of animals - he once wrote to his colleague Alfred Russell Wallace asking why certain animals were "so beautifully and artistically coloured".
Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2009
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(Phys.org) —Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the Universe outside of a black hole. New results from Chandra and other X-ray telescopes have ...
Astronomy
Mar 6, 2013
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To regain balance from an unexpected slip on the ice can require an abundance of rapid movement, but conscious thought isn't part of the equation.
Other
Oct 22, 2010
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Proteins organize themselves around our body cells through a self-induced force. They indent the cell membrane and thereby roll towards each other. This discovery provides new insights in processes like nutritional uptake ...
Biochemistry
Sep 13, 2016
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Researchers at the Santa Fe Institute have developed new machine learning methods to study conflict. Their work appears in PLOS Computational Biology on May 13.
Mathematics
May 13, 2010
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Severe UK winters, like the 'big freeze' of 2009/10, can now be better forecast months in advance using the Met Office's latest model, new research suggests.
Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2012
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In semiconductor heterostructures, reconfiguring the band-edge states and modulating their interplay with charge carriers in a continuous manner have been long-standing challenges.
Nanophysics
Nov 3, 2022
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