Fighting sleeping sickness with X-ray lasers
Structure analysis of the trypanosomal protein Cathepsin B is among the scientific breakthroughs of 2012.
Biochemistry
Dec 21, 2012
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Improving performance of a solar fuel catalyst
(Phys.org)—Hydrogen gas that is created using solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has the potential to be a cost-effective fuel source if the efficiency of the catalysts used in the water-splitting process ...
Materials Science
Oct 4, 2012
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Chiral AuCu heterostructures with site-specific geometric control and tailored plasmonic chirality
Artificially-engineered chiral materials with exceptional light-manipulating capabilities show significantly-enhanced chiroptical response and capability of light manipulation, which have emerged as a promising chiral platform ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 12, 2023
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Key concepts, mathematical models, and statistical techniques for testing animal behavior rationality
Testing rationality of decision-making and choice by evaluating the mathematical property of transitivity has a long tradition in biology, economics, psychology, and zoology. However, this paradigm is fraught with conceptual, ...
Other
Nov 12, 2021
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Efficient indium oxide catalysts designed for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol
Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a green and sustainable means of synthesizing commodity chemicals such as methanol. This conversion process is key to realizing the 'methanol economy' or creating 'liquid ...
Materials Science
Jun 18, 2020
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After the crisis: How to avoid (some of) our misleading beliefs
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and his colleague and friend Amos Tversky formalized the concept of "cognitive bias" in 1972, and considerable research since then has shown that our brain finds it remarkably difficult ...
Social Sciences
May 19, 2020
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250,000 Melbourne residents losing water due to logging
Logging in Melbourne's largest water catchment has led to a loss of water equivalent to the amount used by 250,000 people each year, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2019
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The ethics of artificial intelligence: Teaching computers to be good people
When people think about artificial intelligence, or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming.
Machine learning & AI
Mar 26, 2019
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Video: Our endless fascination with pi
For centuries, pi—the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter—has fascinated mathematicians and scientists. The number, which is infinite but never falls into a repeating pattern, is used in formulae throughout ...
Mathematics
Mar 14, 2019
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Are organisms basically living machines?
Scientists are increasingly interested in the prospect of solving a range of fundamental problems facing our civilisation by designing and reconstructing organisms.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2018
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