It's becoming increasingly obvious that as we spend more time communicating via social media, we are disappearing into bubbles. We receive information from the same sources and witness the views of the same people in our ...
Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2014
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Researchers from Hull, Bristol and Frankfurt have shown that a new technique for identifying molecular structure can be used effectively on small samples of biological proteins, particularly proteins that are targeted for ...
Biochemistry
Nov 14, 2011
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An Israeli physicist has developed a theoretical model to simulate the evolution of highly proliferating brain tumour core cells subjected to treatment by alternating radio frequency electric field. The research, by Alexander ...
General Physics
Jun 6, 2012
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Scientists have discovered that greater mouse-eared bats use polarisation patterns in the sky to navigate – the first mammal that's known to do this.
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2014
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Through the combined effect of flexoelectricity and piezoelectricity, researchers at the ICN2 led by ICREA Gustau Catalán in collaboration with the UAB have found that polar materials can be made more or less resistant to ...
Materials Science
Oct 20, 2017
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The UPV/EHUs Molecular Spectroscopy Group, in collaboration with the Institute of Catalysis and Petroleum Chemistry of the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), has developed a highly fluorescent hybrid material that ...
Nanophysics
Apr 30, 2014
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Magnetic fields are present in a large variety of stars across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, during all evolutionary stages from pre-main sequence stars, to main sequence stars and evolved stars, up to the final stages ...
Astronomy
Nov 26, 2018
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Researchers working with Wojciech Hajdas at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a detector called POLAR. This instrument is expected to search out and investigate so-called gamma ray bursts coming from the depths ...
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2016
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Increasing political polarization is often attributed to the internet and the dramatic increase in access to sources of information—also known as the new media landscape.
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2021
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Political divisions are deeper than at any time in the past 50 years, according to a new study led by the University of St Andrews.
Political science
Dec 8, 2021
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