Chinese scientists use laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to identify toxic cooking 'gutter oil'
The illegal use of waste cooking oil in parts of the nationwide food system is threatening the public's health in China.
The illegal use of waste cooking oil in parts of the nationwide food system is threatening the public's health in China.
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 26, 2014
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Researchers from a collaboration led by the RIKEN BioResource Science Center in Japan have analyzed agricultural systems using a multiomics approach, and successfully digitalized the complex interactions between plants, microbes ...
Ecology
Jun 8, 2020
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Conventional encryption methods rely on complex mathematical algorithms and the limits of current computing power. However, with the rise of quantum computers, these methods are becoming increasingly vulnerable, necessitating ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 3, 2024
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If you have just seen a play that you privately think is drivel, will you keep silent when everyone around you demands an encore?
Social Sciences
Jun 19, 2013
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If you think keeping up with what's happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by 7 billion – and you'll have a sense of what Court Corley wakes up to every morning.
Computer Sciences
Jun 7, 2013
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If you want to understand an ecosystem, look at what the species within it eat. In studying food webs—how animals and plants in a community are connected through their dietary preferences—ecologists can piece together ...
Archaeology
Jan 14, 2021
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Scientists from the Higher School of Economics have developed a method that allows physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to separate between various types of elementary particles with a high degree of accuracy. The ...
General Physics
Nov 1, 2018
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Google's algorithm for ranking web-pages can be used to determine which species are critical for sustaining ecosystems. Drs. Stefano Allesina and Mercedes Pascual find that "PageRank" can be applied to the study of food webs, ...
Ecology
Sep 4, 2009
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(Phys.org)—Do you know who Michael Jackson or George Washington was? You most likely do: they are what we call "household names" because these individuals were so ubiquitous. But what about Giuseppe Tartini or John Bachar?
Computer Sciences
Sep 13, 2012
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Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have successfully developed and demonstrated a new experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions through the artificial reconstruction of transcriptional ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 14, 2012
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